Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons and took his place on Government benches. He was the Right Honorable Winston Churchill, most versatile member of the Conservative Party, once First Lord of the Admiralty, once Chancellor of the Exchequer, once Minister for the Colonies, once President of the Board of Trade and now just plain M.P. for Epping, 17 miles northeast of London on the Chipping Ongar Branch of the London North East Railway...
Just above Italy's vulnerable northern plain, at his Cisalpine summer home in Santianna di Valdieri, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips found small King Vittorio Emmanuele III when he went to deliver Fisherman Franklin Roosevelt's peace appeal last week. Personally insignificant but institutionally of as great importance to Italians as George VI is to Britons, King Vittorio Emmanuele thanked Mr. Roosevelt for his idea, promised to convey it to his Government. He had not far to go. Northward on the same train with Mr. Phillips had traveled Son-in-Law Ciano, ostensibly just to get a Collar...
...oval tent big enough to hold a three-ring circus was pitched last week in an Allensville, Pa. hayfield. No circus did it contain but the biennial world conference of the Mennonite Church. A plain-garbed, plain-spoken sect holding the tenets of 16th-Century Netherlander Menno Simons, the Mennonites shun attention and cities alike. At Allensville, surrounded by the rugged mountains of central Pennsylvania that hem in the fertile and tranquil Kishacoquillas Valley their ancestors settled before the Revolution, they felt perfectly at home. The 7,000 delegates came from Argentina, Tanganyika, India and all North America...
When Byron died of fever at Missolonghi, he left behind not only his great-lover reputation, but a plain, square, tin box with part of the evidence. In it were three dark red braids contributed by the "Maid of Athens," Theresa Macri and her sisters; a ringlet of Lady Oxford's, and several bundles of adoring letters from women who worshiped Byron, some of whom had never seen him. Most were wildly exclamatory, heavily underlined with pages blotted and blistered with tears. Byron did not answer all the letters. Even those he promised to destroy he kept, since...
Popular knowledge of Mormons centres on their practice of "celestial marriage," better known as polygamy. Author Fisher makes it plain that the storm over Mormon polygamy was raised by something less pure than moral indignation...