Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell House men were offered the delectable choice of "Omelette, plain or Spanish," but the tooth-some sounding "Spanish" was replaced by "spinach...
Florence Ellinwood Allen, onetime Cleveland Plain Dealer musicritic, sits as judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati. Mrs. Frances Perkins Wilson is Secretary of Labor. The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920. Still forbidden women in 26 States, however, is another prime privilege of a citizen-the right to serve as jurors...
...Carl T. Leander, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a graduate of the Dental School last year, has been named first recipient of the Sebert E. Davenport Memorial prize of the Dental School, given in memory of his father by Dr. S. E. Davenport, Jr., of New York City...
...Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild-house in London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly superior to any Aimee Semple McPherson (see below), Preacher Royden nevertheless employed a modicum of showmanship in uniforming her attendants and herself in berets, trim dark gowns. Plain, somewhat masculine in manner, far from robust since she was born with both hips dislocated, Dr. Royden worked hard putting her intensely personal messages across, retired completely exhausted after every sermon...
...More Than a Secretary" shows Jean Arthur in a rather futile effort to appear plain-looking as secretary to George Brent, who, as a sort of streamlined Bernarr MacFadden, publishes a health magazine. Mr. Brent is kept in condition by his Brooklyn masseur, Lionel Stander, who reaches new heights as a comedian in this production...