Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November. It was a routine prefight precaution for Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, onetime chairman of New York State's Athletic Commission, to appear before the postmasters' Chicago convention last week and assure those loyal jobholders that slurs from the Republican camp against their man were "just plain politics...
When in 1914 the first poems of Spoon River Anthology were published in Reedy's Mirror, U. S. poets, critics and plain readers felt that they were at last hearing an authentic U. S. voice. Few poems have had such an immediate and widespread influence. The book was translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Danish, German, Swedish and Japanese, was praised, parodied, attacked and widely sold (80,000 volumes in 1915-16). To a generation that had revolted against the superficial optimism, the stock poses of genteel poets, the 200-odd austere epitaphs of Spoon River were more than...
Among others are sons of '48 teachers, half a dozen deans" (plain and fancy assorted), "45 bankers and brokers" yet at large, "34 engineers," both civil and insolent, and "18 clergymen," including one bishop, the latter being cancelled out by the son of "one radio announcer." But despite the A. A. A. and the Conant prize fellowships, only five farmers' sons escaped plowing under to reach Cambridge...
...nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land. To Badshah Gul, son of the Haji of Turangzai, toward whose mountain plain the Gandab Road seemed directly pointed, the road looked menacing. The Haji's son began to pick off the native road laborers from ambush. Last week the British Raj set out to spank the Haji...
...fools, the tribesmen faded away. When the Scots ran out of the Pass, they saw half a dozen Mohmands scuttling up the gorges, a turbaned man in front of a village waving a white flag. It was a British victory. The job ended in the plain hard work of British empire-building. By transferring his supplies from trucks to mule and camel, General Auchinleck advanced his base into the Haji's plain. Then he rushed construction of a water line and the extension of the Gandab Road through the Pass. Said dispatches: "The nature of the territory and the skill...