Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McAdoo tried to soothe his fellow Californians' rising hysteria from the vantage point of distant Washington. Said he: "This 'wolf scare' doesn't frighten me at all." But California property owners were now thoroughly alarmed. As capital continued to emigrate, bums, panhandlers, tramps and just plain jobless continued to immigrate across the State borders. All over the State Motor Vehicle Department clerks reported an influx of travelers with suitcases or blanket rolls who said they heard there was going to be "plenty of work in California" for unemployed. The State's gamblers had their money...
...under way in Atlantic City last week, 10,000 people gathered in vast Convention Hall for a mission rally. Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, treasurer of the Church's National Council, was about to announce results of a ''Thank Offering" collected among the women when suddenly a plain churchman whom few recognized leaped up, strode to a microphone before the high altar. As Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry looked on with amazement from his throne, Rev. Cornelius Polhemus Trowbridge of Salem, Mass, cried: "I am not Franklin, but I am a minister of Christ. I have...
...became intimate with his next-door neighbor, a telephone operator named Freda McKechnie, whose father worked in the same coal company as Edwards' father. Both families attended the Bethesda Church. Three years ago Bobby Edwards went off to school at East Aurora, N. Y., fell in love with a plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly too hot for even sexational newspapers to handle, the letters described a physical attachment so feverish...
Author Russell translates into plain English many a little-known name and cloudily-understood theory?the Benthamites and other English philosophical radicals, Marx, dialectical materialism, surplus value. In the wide conclusion he draws from his wide subject he considers nothing so parochial as a U. S. New Deal. But in his capacity as observer he reports that economic nationalism is the order of the day. "Organization to the utmost within the State, freedom without limit in the relations between States." Only international organization will save the world from calamity. "The same causes that produced war in 1914 are still operative...
...their mounts for more than the usual private canter. Critics who hardly raised their eyes at Stephen Vincent Ben�t's John Brown's Body began to look alive when Archibald MacLeish's Conquistador appeared. Though Poets Brewer, Hill and Stuart will cause little commotion among the critics, to plain readers they will be a further indication that narrative verse is coming back, may be edging toward a real modern epic...