Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agency's fourth-generation head to discuss that law in Washington before the Senate committee investigating labor spying and coercion (TIME, Feb. 8). From the agency's instruction book, Committee Chairman La Follette read an item order-ing operatives to submit their bills to Government officials on "plain paper...
...destruction of those very civil liberties which the Harvard Student Union so ardently and sincerely espouses. And when the leader in Washington tries to throw a member out of his union for opposing his views, the implication of a future fascist dictatorship based on a labor army is as plain as Sinclair Lewis...
...children to beg, goes out alone in the midst of rioting to help loot a rich merchant's house. Though trampled and nearly shot, she gets away with a pouch of jewels. She gives them to Wang, keeping only two pearls-"not to wear-I am too plain-but to look at when I am alone...
...time & again, took photographs where he was allowed, drew plans, read everything relevant he could lay hands on, calls his report the fullest to date. Much of that report was of interest only to historians and architects, but some of it makes eye-opening reading to vicarious snoopers and plain monogamists. Says Mr. Penzer: The harem was not a man's paradise but a woman's world, "governed with the utmost deliberation and care, not by a man at all, but by a woman." That was the Sultan Valide, the Sultan's mother. No. 2 was neither...
...gulp. In The Hundred Years, Philip Guedalla, historian with a fine journalistic palate, combines these time-tasting methods. In 400 pages he has arranged the savoriest moments of the last 100 years in a bill-of-fare to suit the taste of journalistic historians, history-minded journalists and plain readers. Of the 14 years he dishes up, only six are pre-1900. Some of them...