Word: plain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guardian is Lew Friedman, an ex-convict, reformed, very eager to effect her marriage to jolly Frank Sutton. There is also a newspaper reporter who scuttles about like a comic ghost. Robberies are going off all the time, like firecrackers, and Squealer is up to his tricks. It is plain that, in actuality, he is one of the persons named above. But which one? Is there any way to find out without waiting for the last chapter? There is. The squealer could not possibly be Beryl Stedman because she is a pure sweet girl, the only one in the story...
...pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric of white. There must not be more than eight or less than six buttons, fiat, covered with the same cloth as the garments, on the front of the coat. The neck cloths must be plain black or plain white...
Sirs: This week in a preface to some extracts from an article of mine in Plain Talk, you made a rather serious error. You siad I was red-headed and amiable. I'm neither and just now more one than the other...
Second in the U. S. command was Lieutenant Moses Gould. As the Captain fell, the Lieutenant, though wounded, rallied his men and rushed them forward out of the trap onto an open plain beyond. There they successfully repelled an attack by the Sandino forces, drove them into the forest where they disappeared like old-time Red Indians...
...could belong only to a bank policeman or its director. The picture of Myron Taylor that was published in news-sheets last week seemed to belong between the two older faces that appeared at the same time. Supported by the crisp ruff of a wing tipped collar, severe, shrewd, plain and kindly, it was a face easily recognized and remembered as a symbol of dependability, of integrity...