Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week plain "Charlie" Curtis still had a warm place in those friends' hearts. As for a niche in U. S. history, his best chance seemed to be by reason of the facts that he had been: 1) the first man of Indian blood to become Vice President; 2) the half-brother of Dolly Curtis Gann...
...Kitty" decided to move to the larger auditorium principally because the avid Shaksperians prevented his entrance to the originally scheduled room. When word spread that the locale had been shifted to Professor Merriman's lair, ladies from Radcliffe, boys and girls from Rindge Tech, and just plain Harvardmen threw dignity to the winds and raced helter-skelter for vantage spots from which to hear that "King Claudius, (Hamlet's uncle), of all geat characters in Shakspere, is the one who has suffered most at the hands of actors and stage managers...
Although pious expressions looking toward international monetary stabilization have indeed been made by President Roosevelt and Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer, their acts in cheapening and artificially juggling the values of the dollar and the pound have been a plain contradiction of these expressions. As for M. Tannery and the regents of the Bank of France last week, what they were actually getting at was not entirely clear. A new Cabinet of the Left Centre took office in Paris fortnight ago, and if devaluation or inflation or "panic" should come soon the kickback from enraged French voters...
Included also are rare first editions of "Departmental Ditties," and "Plain Tales from the Hills." Many of the first editions collected by Mrs. Livingston are paper bound and their covers are known to have been designed by Kipling's father. These paper bound items include "Soldiers Three," "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkle," "Under the Deodars," and "In Black and White...
...example from the fields of gallantry? When two gentlemen compete for the favor of a lady, and the one succeeds and the other is rejected, and (as will sometimes happen) matter damaging to the successful rival's credit reaches the ear of the defeated, it is held by plain men of no pretensions that his mouth is, in the circumstance, almost necessarily closed. Your church and Damien's were in Hawaii upon a rivalry to do well: to help, to edify, to set Divine examples. You having (in one huge instance) failed, and Damien succeeded, I marvel...