Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poets' Corner of the Abbey,* the pallbearers included Kipling's cousin. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Major General Sir Fabian Ware. the Morning Post's Editor H. A. Gwynne. Then to the Abbey floor was added a plain stone inscribed, "RUDYARD KIPLING...
...dignitaries representing Church and State boarded airplanes and a U. S. tug for the short trip to Kalaupapa. There, with a Japanese cameraman filming the proceedings and Honolulu Undertaker Jacob K. Ordenstein directing operations, nuns, clergy and officials stood by the grave, watched its concrete top cracked away, the plain coffin exhumed. Because there was no longer any danger of spreading Bacillus leprae, no need existed to sterilize Father Damien's mouldering bones and dust, according to President Frederick E. Trotter of the Honolulu Board of Health. In an undersized, zinc-lined coffin of koa wood, the remains were...
...Perhaps I would have been-who knows?" answered plain Mr. Kipling in one of the rare moments when he permitted himself to be caught off guard. "But one day long ago, in an exhilarated and irresponsible moment. I wrote a little song. Possibly you know...
...sell two and a half used cars. A used-car buyer generally has an old one to trade in too. By the end of the third transaction in this series the dealer will probably have on his floor what the trade calls a "jallopy"'-anything from plain junk to a museum piece...
...books written by that perishably popular U. S. school of which he is the acknowledged dean, he did well to be gloomy. Even Monsieur Beancaire, though it may have been written with crocodile tears, will not evaporate as fast as The Lorenzo Bunch, which was written in plain water. Tarkington addicts may find it a refreshing draught, however, guaranteed neither to exhilarate nor unduly depress...