Word: pikestaffs
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...would mount a bare platform and make a speech. His constant theme: Cut wheat acreage by 20%. But when the farmers got home at night, they were more likely to remember Mr. Legge's clenched fists, his red, sweating face, his "hells," and "damns" than his plain-as-a-pikestaff argument that, with world prices down, U. S. wheat production (850,000,000 bu.) must, to be profitable, be cut down toward domestic consumption...
...Plain as a pikestaff is the fact that Britain's electoral system should some soon day be revised. Only 58 Liberal M. P.'s were returned at the last election by 5,257,536 Liberal votes. But the two larger parties, Labor and Conservative each obtained more than four times more M. P.'s than the Liberals, though they each received less than twice as many votes as were cast for Liberal candidates...
...splendid isolation." Today however even the most insularly minded are beginning to see that invasion from the skies is the real danger and that a channel tunnel would be vastly advantageous to British commerce in time of peace and easily dynamitable in case of war with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last week even that ruddy, insular, industrial squire, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, took up sturdy cudgels in its defense. When the House of Commons reassembled last week after a month-long holiday, the Squire-Statesman said...
Significance. Plain as a pikestaff loomed Pilsudski's chagrin at not obtaining a three-fifths parliamentary majority-either at his own election or Moscicki's-wherewith to amend radically the Constitution, increase vastly the executive power, and institute the broad program of reforms which he envisioned at the time of his coup...