Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calm and cool amidst the feverish preparations for the coming of the country's Chief Executive, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, of the Yard Police, lends a reassuring and accustomed note to the great influx of assorted government agents, uniformed, plain clothed, and garbed in a variety of terrifying disguises...
...miles away, but in this case Tugwell was 1,000 miles away. He broke off his recuperation. Up from the South at break of day he came by airplane, went in haste to the White House door. But he came too late. The President had already made his stand plain to newshawks: he had no intention of intervening, the shakeup in AAA was an "internal matter...
Patti surrounded herself with cockatoos and basked in vanity. The careers of Garden, Farrar and Jeritza have been bright with jewels, racy with escapades. But Lotte Lehmann is just a singer. Her childhood in Perleberg, Germany, was plain. She remembers red plush furniture, a feeble-minded grandfather in an embroidered velvet cap, an understanding mother who on Christmas day played Santa Claus. Her father, a small-town official, was determined that his daughter should be a school-teacher because schoolteachers get pensions. Lotte Lehmann is already assured of a pension-from the proud Vienna Opera of which...
...wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry at the gates of Paris by showing him a switch made of dead patricians' pigtails...
...Madison, Bachelor Anderson lives with three sisters in a house his father built near Lake Mendota. A brother, Isaac, is on the New York Times Book Review staff. Artist Anderson gets many a Henry idea from watching moppets in the streets. Big-framed, grey, mild, plain as homespun, he looks and talks like a Norwegian woodworker, lacks the jargon of the comic-stripper. For fun he goes to a carpenter's bench in his house, turns out odd pieces of woodwork. A child's desk of his design is marketed in Milwaukee for about...