Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LESTER ALLEN Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...church in St. Paul's Cathedral ("The Parish Church of the British Empire") go the King & Queen on May 24, humbly wearing "plain clothes." Next evening they dine at red brick No. 10 Downing Street with the Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin ("The King Makers"). The King was born Dec. 14, 1895, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin has ordered "Celebration of the King's Birthday on June 9," * and this may be said to close the Coronation Season. The London Season continues for swanksters until the Cowes Regatta which ends...
...autobiography. These memoirs were billed as the first ever -written by a First Lady while resident in the White House. The Journal editors promised that Mrs. Roosevelt's writings would be "unusually frank." The stark honesty of the first installment, released at the announcement party, made plain that this was one editorial boast which was likely to be fulfilled. Extracts...
When fillers were needed for the paper, Kipling wrote them: verse (Departmental Ditties) or prose (Plain Tales from the Hills). Other Indian papers began to buy his stuff; soon there were half a dozen paperbacked books signed Kipling on Indian railway bookstalls. By now Kipling had some money saved up. He turned his back on India and apprenticeship, returned to England to dip his fiery pen into the Thames. Almost immediately the Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly...
...free and easy. The men in uniform don't feel called upon to swagger and shout orders and twist their mustaches in order to demonstrate their army spirit and discipline. There's no order of onions in the tears, and no emotional laryngitis. In short, its just good plain honest acting...