Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparison with The Stars Look Down, Horse Shoe Bottoms is plain and unadorned. John Stafford and his wife Ellen were brought from England to the Bottoms when Old Bill Wantling found coal there and needed skilled English miners to get it out. As long as Old Bill had control, in the last quarter of the 19th Century, the miners endured their hardships stoically, for Old Bill always listened to their complaints even when he could do nothing about them. But when the business expanded and a hard young upstart named Don Simpson, who knew a lot about business but nothing...
Long years after, the union was recognized in Horse Shoe Bottoms, The Staffords went back, but John was too ill with tuberculosis to work in the mine he loved. When Ellen saw the huge crowds that tramped miles to his funeral, she suddenly realized that her plain, impractical husband had been a great man, reflected with anguish, pride and bewilderment that husbands ought to explain things to their wives...
...fact, a myriad of activities carries the University and its "Veritas" far afield from its native habitat on the banks of the Charles--to the Blue Hills and Jamaica Plain, to Worcester County, to Cuba and Africa's Orange Free State, and even atop Mt. Washington...
...year-old doctor named Carl Austin Weiss Jr. did it seemed fairly plain to local newshawks. Young Dr. Weiss, a Tulane Medical School graduate who practiced with his father in Baton Rouge, had married Miss Louise Yvonne Pavy. Mrs. Weiss was the daughter of Circuit Judge B. H. Pavy, a rabid anti-Longster in St. Landry Parish. One of the 39 bills up for passage by the Legislature was to gerrymander Judge Pavy's judicial district in such a way as to effect his ouster. Brooding darkly on this piece of petty politics, Carl Weiss apparently thought...
...leader, William Aberhart, whose ancestors were German, followed the tactic of Adolf Hitler in not standing for election to a legislative seat but devoting all his energies to boosting the Social Credit Party into power. This accomplished, plain Mr. Aberhart accepted from one of his Party henchmen last week the seat he had to have before he could be named Premier...