Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traveling court set up on an automobile is now visiting markets in Berlin to punish profiteers. Plain clothes policemen patrol the market place, and on finding that an excessive price has been charged, or on hearing any complaint they immediately arrest the offending dealer and take him before the court. Justice is meted out on the spot, and the result is that prices have been considerably reduced. The city officials hope that these courts will end the food riots which have resulted from the exorbitant demands made by the merchants...
...Party, Willamilla, You, The Tiger, the chief characters are three children, Daisy Mears, Elsie Threamer, Laurence Coy. At Laurence's party Daisy, a plain little girl, insists on playing with Laurence, tripping him up, creating the impression that she is his " girl"; but Laurence worships Elsie, a lovely little girl who delights in tormenting him (though pretending to be aloof), making the other children spank him, getting him into trouble, and then looking perfectly innocent...
...election of Senators by the people. That policy did not rend the structure of government to its foundations, as timid conservatism predicted; nor did woman's suffrage destroy the fabric of society; nor have direct primaries upset the balance of our political processes. "As a matter of plain fact, I am in some things an utter conservative, determined to conserve, as far as I possibly can, those principles and policies of the fathers which for so many years have made our country the freest and the happiest, the most prosperous and the most powerful nation upon the face...
...Endocrine imbalance," or, in plain English, abnormal make-up of the secretions from the ductless glands, is susceptible to control by chemical methods, claims Dr. Josiah S. Hughes, professor of chemistry in the Kansas State Agricultural College. Compounds may be produced which will modify inherited dispositions, induce natural sleep, give the exhilaration of stimulants without their consequent depression, perform other miracles now undreamed of. It is only fair to say that psychiatrists and physiologists are still generally from Missouri" on such romantic possibilities...
That this is due to plain laziness and lack of ability and is not out of consideratioin for the demands of the somewhat mythical T.B.M. is demonstrated by the work of Florenz Ziegfeld and John Murray Anderson. The genius of these two gentlemen is responsible for raising the general level of musical revues in America far above that of any other country. They refused to subscribe to the trade dictum that people like the old jokes best, or that the old tunes can be polished up to look like new, or that stage sets designed by a scenic factory...