Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jerome LeR. Abrams '39, Long Branch, New Jersey; Horace C. Arnold '37, East Bloomfield, New York; Zola A. Aronson '33, Fort Plain, New York; John Ashmead, Jr. '38, Windsor, Connecticut; William A. Beardalee '37, New Brunswick, New Jersey; David Beck '38, Union City, New Jersey; Robert L. Bishop '37, Great Neck, New York; Phillips I. Blumberg '39, New York City; James H. Brooks '38, Staten Island, New York; James M. Carpenter '37, Poughkeepsie, New York; Frank L. Chamberlin, Jr., Stamford, Connecticut; John L. Chase '37, Tully, New York; Howard F. Cline '39, Elizabeth, New Jersey; J. Emerson Coyle '37, Brooklyn...
...ships, the King George V and the Prince of Wales, each costing $40,000,000, was lately announced by Sir Samuel. In this the Admiralty is supported by the Committee on Imperial Defense which last week arrived at two blunt conclusions after months of exhaustive research: 1) "It is plain to us that capital ships cannot be constructed so as to be indestructible, by bombing from the air"; 2) "We need ships equal in fighting power to those to which they may be opposed...
Musical Jeremiahs have long wailed about high prices which keep music from the plain people, draw only the rich who come not to hear but to be seen. Not less sour is their estimate of the "virtuoso system" which rewards performers for their fine airs or interesting eccentricities, pays scant attention to their musicianship. Last spring bright, aggressive Ira Arthur Hirschmann, vice president of New York's smart Saks Fifth Avenue department store, snapped: "It's about time somebody threw the circuses out of the concert halls...
...dissatisfactions. His daughter Mary, who was apparently not very bright, wrote requesting "speedy consent of her being marryed" to a stranger named Mr. Fortunatus Wright, a brewer from Liverpool. Precisely what happened remains unclear, for Mr. Bulkeley scratched out a long passage in his diary, but "in plain English," states Editor Roberts, "Mr. Wright had seduced Mary Bulkeley." The young couple came to live with the squire, disappeared, returned, left their daughter for him to raise. But by 1746 Fortunatus Wright was famed throughout Great Britain as a dazzling privateer, "the brave corsair" whose raids on French shipping had netted...
...Lord Barrenstock and Epicene, "What's it to me that you have been "In your pursuit of interdicted joys "Seducer of a hundred little boys . . . ? "Tis not for these unsocial acts, not these "I wet my pen! . . . "But oh! your tie is crooked and I see "Too plain you had an eclair for your...