Word: plaines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Publicity Department--Frederick Fish '26 of Winchester, Mass.; Vincent Hatfield Hazard '25 of Jamaica Plain; Carl Theodore Larson '25 of Kansas City, Mo.; Frederick de Wolf Pingree '25 of Brookline; Lendon Snedeker '25 of Brooklyn...
...became fairly clear that the Lansing-Ishii agreement was moribund. President Harding practically said so. The powers swore not to encroach upon China, and Mr. Wang went home happier even though Baron Shidibara declared: "To say that Japan has special interests in China is simply to state a plain and actual fact...
...British attitude is expressed in the Peking Times: "It is plain the boycott agitation is being engineered by interested parties. . . . Under the guise of pseudo-patriotism it is possible for the student and political agitators to intimidate the merchant classes and cause a very serious commercial loss. . . . It (Japan) has made immense and far-reaching concessions to China. . . . It is sheer effrontery . . . for the student politicians to clamor for the unconditional restoration of Liao-Tung's leased territory." The French newspaper, the Evening News, endorses the British viewpoint...
...that Ethiopia, especially Meroitic Ethiopia, had been governed by a long line of queens named Candace. Professor Griffith dispelled the greater part of this delusion by proving that the word "candace" is only a title meaning "queen". The excavation of the tombs has served further to make the situation plain...
...human nature. Such a murder is the Dorothy King case. It has love (and illicit love-which is always more fascinating), riches, social prestige, an underworld motif, intrigue and violence. It appeals to snobbery, outraged morality, pity, terror and man's appetite for the human hunt. Thousands of plain people, reading the lurid three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths...