Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glee Club will sing at Jamaica Plain tomorrow evening...
...announced, be taken away yesterday afternoon; but, as usual, very many have modestly put off signing until the last moment. It is out of place to urge anyone to attend this dinner, for all know how much benefit always is derived from such an event. It is also plain that in order to provide comfortable accommodations and avoid a great crush, the committee must know by tonight at the very latest how many to expect. It will therefore be more convenient, to say the least, if everyone signs right away...
...December Century may be called an Early California number. The opening paper. "Lite in California before the Gold Discovery" by Gen. Bidwell, is a plain, unvarnished tale, its romance being all concentrated in its brilliant illustrations. "Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California," is more picturesque in effect though written with equal simplicity. "Trading with the Indians" and "The Date of the Discovery of the Yosemite" complete the California quartette...
...sense of individual responsibility; to expose existing corruption in whatever party and to show the reforming efficacy of a resolute public sentiment. 3. The essays are to be historical in argument, supported by facts, and free from political bias or party propagandism. The tone shall be moderate; the style plain and terse, and likely to interest alike the educated and uncultivated reader. 4. The essays are to be type-written, signed with a nom de plume, and the true name of the author to be enclosed in a sealed envelope, superscribed with the assumed name. 5. The length shall...
...Struggle with Fate," by Mr. M. O. Wilcox is a smoothly written story of excellence in the descriptions. The closing passage, portraying the vast snow covered plain and the bursting into flame of Ornoff's love, is notably effective. The story might be accused of a tendency towards sensationalism, but not sufficiently to detract from its merits...