Word: plain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes later they glanced at each other, startled. Was that a police gong? Into the curb eased a car, blue and fast, like the Detective Bureau's. Through the office door strode four men. Two, in police uniforms, swung submachine guns. Two, in plain clothes, carried stubby shotguns...
...elder Lindbergh, it is true, was never satisfied that any change had come in the manner and method of large banking houses. To the end he saw them only as "accursed burdens upon the plain people." In 1923, in The Economic Pinch, he wrote...
...That there were other men whom the public could have better expected chosen, was evidenced by the fact that Mr. Adams's name was not even mentioned by the press as a possibility, although he was among those who have recently conferred with Mr. Hoover in Miami. It seems plain that the new cabinet will be appointed with less regard for invisible government, and more for personal qualifications...
...plain," smiled M. Poincaré, "that a representative government operates less smoothly when it has to lay heavy burdens on its people than when it has only to please them. And France," he added ruminatively, "France has much to bear...
Chesterton ever a favorite, more than holds his own in this book rich in good sense, wit and plain cheerful truth. It overflows with the exuberance of mental energy...