Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...would not pay, at least the police got credit for an arrest, plus rake-off from bondsmen and lawyers to whom they recommended the case. Sample of the many tales with which Witness Latore made Manhattan gasp: "I went back to the hotel and [Plain-clothesman John J.] Stiglin gave me something like $40 or $50 . . . because this girl was supposed to be high-priced. ... It was very hot that day and we went into this room, this girl and I, after paying for the room, and I wanted to take a shower. I came back to the room...
...swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg cabinet, a move which many French newspapers continued to urge last week. Nervy, plump-cheeked Albert Oustric started his career before the War as plain "Albert," a white-aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world...
...start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl behind in Wisconsin: more worldly-wise than he, Irma Schmultz (for such was her plain name) insisted he keep their engagement secret for awhile. When weeks went by without a letter from him, Irma grew anxious, went to Washington. Daniel reassured her, but soon the truth came out: he was head-over-heels in love with beautiful Mrs. Miller. Irma was heartbroken but gallant. Just...
...five men who will compose the Senior Album Committee were elected in the following order: Leslie Cheek, Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee; Carl Emile Pickhardt, of Newton; James Lester Madden of Newton; Donald Timberlake Field, of Phillips, Maine; James Bethune Campbell, of Jamaica Plain...
...single rooms. Pray tell, is it a working theory that the upper-classmen, have heavier wallets than have the new-comers to this university? Or have we to pay the extra sums for the privilege of being in "Houses" with a Master and all the rest rather than in plain "dorms...