Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growing confusion among plain citizens as to the direction of the New Deal program, growing doubt as to whether the President himself knew where it was leading...
...sheer distortion of plain words out of their plain meaning this could scarcely be surpassed, and no such feat was attempted in Warsaw by Colonel Slawek. What he has done is to make a tolerably neat system out of the loose ends of Marshal Pilsudski's erratic and unsystematic but popular and effective Military Dictatorship...
...hanged, not electrocuted, in the county where the crime was committed, and since the Livingston County jail is not big enough to accommodate a scaffold, De Boe's execution took place outside in the jail yard. The surrounding fence was so low that the gallows was in plain view of the crowd. De Boe smiled and nodded to friends and neighbors, remarked: "This fresh air sho' do feel good." The sheriff then gave him 30 minutes in which to speak his last words...
...world may come to an end next year, next month or next fortnight. This possibility arises from a plain fact of astronomy. Last December an almost unknown star on the fringe of the constellation Hercules, far below the range of naked-eye visibility, was observed in the midst of a flaring explosion which in nine days increased the intensity of its radiation 200,000 times and placed it among the twelve brightest stars in the sky (TIME Dec 31). Only last fortnight did Nova Herculis 1934, on the downgrade to its onetime obscurity, become again too dim to be seen...
Thus went Nordica's life-from a heyday that was richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself...