Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom he consistently loses $50 a month, he seemed not to mind. Not even they could figure why Charley wanted another pay check. A widower with one son, his $25,000-a-year from the Democratic National Committee seemed ample. Charley the Mike, his pals figured, must be just plain bored with so few Republicans to bend...
...President Roosevelt took sides. He wrote a letter to ''Dear Alben" Barkley which referred pointedly to the fact that Mr. Barkley was now Acting Leader. A worried afterthought was the President's assurance to Pat Harrison that he was neutral. Nobody was neutral. The issue was plain: Barkley & President Roosevelt v. Harrison & Friends...
...find that the provocation for the police assault did not go beyond abusive language and the throwing of isolated missiles. . . . From all the evidence we think it plain that the force employed by the police was far in excess of that which the occasion required...
...prince of puzzles" will find this collection better than most since the nimble wit of Winthrop Mackworth Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...
...done every Sunday for two years, quiet, kindly. 61-year-old Fritz Mueller, German-born Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes place. Agent Kelly fells Mueller...