Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rushing in his car toward Angora the Ghazi saw that it was true. Jutting high above a dusty plain is the ruined citadel of Angora. The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning...
England's aristocratically somnolent House of Lords last week swallowed up another British Socialist,* Rt. Hon. Sidney Webb, hale septuagenarian, world-famed political economist (Fabianism). Statesmen, educators, students who for almost 40 years have known the plain name of Sidney Webb as a synonym for scholarly and philosophically radical Socialism, will not soon be accustomed to his new Socialist title, "Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner" (after his estate in Hampshire). Unfamiliar with his new position and decidedly uncomfortable in it seemed Sidney Webb, last week, as he entered the House of Lords and went through the ceremony of becoming...
...Since then other Rascoe jobs have been: associate editor of McCall's, literary editor of the New York Tribune (now Herald Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury (circulation...
...Christ Church, Philadelphia, and nominator of Dr. Taitt, mentioned a letter circulated among deputies to the convention. Bishop Garland interrupted: "There must be no references to letters, to caucuses held by laity or clergy, or to newspaper reports. If there are such references I will have to speak some plain words...
...Plain whitewashed walls devoid of all barroom...