Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor in 1930 nor when he was elected President in 1932 did the Democrats win the New York Assembly. Save for last year's New Deal landslide, the Democrats had not won the Assembly in 22 years, because New York is so gerrymandered that they need more than plain majorities to prevail against Republicans. Day after last week's election which sent 82 Republicans, 68 Democrats to the Assembly, the Postmaster General remembered his history. His alibi: in spite of defeat, 500,000 more Democratic than Republican votes had been cast...
...Brookline; Eliot N. Silverman '38, of Brookline; Theodore Singer '38, of Dorchester; Daniel T. Skinner '38, of Roxbury; Alec Skolnick '36, of Dorchester; Ralph I. Smith '38, of Braintree; Alcibiades E. Sophos '38, of Lowell; Manes Specter '36, of Cambridge; Frank H. Stedman, Jr. '37, of Jamaica Plain; Edward D. Sullivan '36, of Dorchester; Arthur Szathmary '37, of Quincy; Alfred W. Teichmier, Jr. '38, of Lawrence; John A. Thierry ocC, of Cambridge; Daniel Tower '37, of Cohasset; John F. Tynan '38, of Cambridge...
Riverside Farm, the boiled eggery, is hot a myth--created by Dining Hall Manager Westcott to add distinction to his morning menus. Plain "Boiled Eggs" would have little appeal, according to Westcott. The term "Riverside" was inspired by Brookside Farm, one time egg purveyor to the University...
...chief of all the Flatheads signed the Treaty of 1855. The ermine tails on this costume signified the rank of Chief Little Claw. Those worn by Sub-chief Bear Track were left to him according to the Indian custom of giving things away at time of death. . . . The plain undecorated war shirt worn by another of the delegation he also inherited and it was actually worn on war parties before the Flatheads settled on the reservation...
...this period he wrote The Marriage of Figaro, which Louis XVI promptly suppressed. A brilliant comedy, relating the conflict of a lackey and his noble master, its revolutionary implications were plain, for it presented the lackey as witty, resourceful, strong. For the first time, a member of the lower class was pictured as a hero on the formal Paris stage. Inconsistently, the bored nobles demanded the presentation of a play which ridiculed them and delighted the masses, forced Louis to withdraw...