Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divided into a double-header. During the first half, both teams played major league football and fought it out to a 7-0 victory for the Indians. In the second half, when football as such went overboard and rapidly sunk, the stands were handed an A-1 exhibition of plain and fancy sliding such as they will not again be able to see until the hockey season opens...
...Mediterranean. It crosses Britain's practically at right angles, passes very close to Minorca. To defend her formidable Maginot Line of fortresses against Germany, France must be able to draw troops and supplies from North Africa, from Algiers or Oran to Marseille. Transports on that line pass within plain sight of Minorca...
President Zapf and wife, a plain, smiling German couple, went to last week's Rochester Congress by bus, took charge of various receptions, joined the rehearsals under Rochester Dirigent Hubert Stiens. The orchestra contained 50 zithers gathered from all over the U. S., three violins, one 'cello, seven mandolins, eight guitars, one flute, one bass viol. A spat nearly spoiled a rehearsal when Soloist Maximillian Veith, a lithographic demonstrator with a Hitler mustache, became piqued at Dirigent Stiens, commanded the orchestra: "When I am in your city I play as I wish. Now you must follow...
...threat of assassination, the Governor will have to make it plain that he cannot like President Roosevelt raly upon secret service men to protect him against such a danger...
...Lang Goes West," an incredibly complicated mystery story about an (East) Indian who wants to lose a priceless diamond. The story deals with a reformed male crook and an unreformed female crook who succeed in falling in love with each other through their mutual efforts to keep just a plain crook from stealing the rock...