Word: plain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subsequently, it was told how the General had been rowed and towed across the great lake district of the Andes, how trains had chugged him across the great Patagonian Plain, how he had visited a U. S. ranchero, had tasted his first cup of yerba mate (herb tea), had danced the Argentine tango with his host's daughter. At Bahia Blanca, Argentine, after being shown the great docks, the General was received by the civic authorities in the City Hall. Then occurred an incident which General Pershing said pleased him more than anything on his trip. A young American...
...Albright said that men, women and chldren were firing into the herd and, after it was all over, they would pick out their elk, often leaving large numbers on the ground which no one dared to claim. They are so ignorant about it and it was such plain slaughter that a case is known where the people had half skinned a donkey before they discovered...
...atmosphere of the convention had laid heavily upon Dr. F. P. Keppel,* President of the Carnegie Corporation. Perhaps he felt that in such density there was no chance for the proverbial spark that might set the world afire. He therefore rose and told the assembled 299 in words plain, blunt, humorous : "Imagine a group of librarians or college professors or Presidents here spontaneously bursting into song or dancing, or both. Yet that is just what we need to break through our self-consciousness and our patterns of convention. This is fundamentally what the arts are for in our lives...
...last bloody gutter by a Corsican elbow, when Virtue raged unchecked in England and that shrewd but disappointed politician, George III, was declared hopelessly insane, certain print shops in London began to sell miniature theatres. With them they sold engraved cards of scenes and characters; the price-a penny plain and tuppence colored. The game of playing with these toys became a fad more prevalent even than Virtue, and as fevered as the undone George. Recently, in the bookshop of S. Nott, in Manhattan, some of these tiny theatres appeared in an exhibition...
Said William A. Brady, producer: "I sat with a group of people and enjoyed over the radio free of charge a program which I can only describe as gorgeous. . . . The plain truth is that we of the theatre are headed straight for ruin...