Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect cook, 46? per month; plain chambermaid, 43? upper chambermaid, 64? housekeeper, 86? nurse, 43? educated governess, 64? girl under 15 years, 20? 16-year-old girl, 40? day helpers...
...Legitimate publicity is the spreading of truthful information, or facts, about any cause or condition which is of interest or importance to people generally? provided that it is made plain who is responsible for distributing the information and who is financing its distribution, together, of course, with details as to the amount of money spent and the methods by which it is expended...
...United Mine Workers and a two-year wage contract. The operators assumed that in waiving the check-off demand the miners had waived these conditions, too. President Lewis of the miners said that when he waived the checkoff, he waived the checkoff, and nothing else. He further made it plain that when he asked the operators to stop checking off rent and supplies, from the miners' wages he did not mean putting such business on a cash basis -he meant that the miners should receive just as much credit as before, but that the operators should find other means...
...like the plays of Owen Davis. They are keen, humorful, filled with satirical touches and dramatic events. They have a saving touch of laughter when they are most tragic. I sat with him the other day watching a rehearsal of Home Fires, his newest play. Here are plain Americans, behaving as plain Americans do. In this play he has attempted an exceedingly difficult task: that of writing tragedy in terms of comedy. His new theme is one that either Rachel Crothers or Booth Tarkington might have chosen: the story of the breaking down of a family due to the frothy...
...parlor at No. 1417 F. St., Washington, is adorned by a photograph of me, balanced on one toe. I gave this picture to the hairdresser in gratitude for a permanent wave well executed. Mrs. Coolidge entered this parlor early on her first day in Washington and called for a plain, old-fashioned shampoo followed by a conservative arrangement of her dark hair. Mrs. Coolidge uses no face clay, powder or cosmetics...