Word: plain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the White House. Observers looking to see what changes, if any, might have come over the White House, noticed that the bronze-bound doors were swinging to and fro with a brisk new freedom. They opened not only in for strangers (see col. 1) but also out for plain tourists to issue grandly forth from the main entrance after staring their way through state chambers. The tourist exit always used to be through the basement. The Open Door policy is the most tangible change which Mrs. Hoover has wrought as First Lady, but there are other, subtle changes...
...last week a sudden spatter of rain drove Rye Cove school children into their plain board study-rooms before the noon recess ended. They were just wriggling themselves quiet in their seats when, down the valley, came a loud howling noise. The sky blackened. A monster wind came twisting between the mountains. It swooped down, caught at the schoolhouse, ripped off the roof, scrunched the rest of it to bits, scattered things insanely. Then it went roaring away, up over the ridge...
...scratch both or either plain tiff?" asked the landlady's counsel...
...Army's refueling champion plane, the Question Mark, flew for 150 hrs. before its engines, plain worn out, sent it down...
...normal prodigy, neatly dressed in New Haven-tailored suits and plain neckties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was made Secretary of Yale University in 1923, while he was still in law school. Then he said: "I get so sick of hearing that I am young. I wish that I would suddenly grow up and get baldheaded. People come into my office and when they see me they laugh. President Angell said in a speech that Yale had robbed the cradle to get a secretary, and I replied that I wanted every one to know that I had a birthday last week...