Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mere "vocal wind" but apt, powerful and profound is "goldplated anarchy," synonym for rugged individualism" [TIME, Sept 10]. Can this be a new rallying cry, a new "Battle Cry of Freedom?" Is this the plain name for that camouflaged something which the diehards fight so tenaciously to hold...
...Larrimore) when Ma refuses to give Florrie $10 to go to Asbury Park. Deprived of a chance to see her own beau, Florrie goes out with Tillie's. The result of this excursion is a baby and a shotgun wedding. By the time the baby arrives, it is plain that in trying to make her daughters do the right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries a wench. Tillie is embittered by her disappointment. Florrie dies despondently in childbirth. Only Ma's old friend, the Butcher Freiberg (Joseph Greenwald) maintains his customary...
...never heard of out of his little circle." The lecturer then went on to say: "We all seem to be under the delusion that the rich pay the taxes . . It is the Forgotten Man who pays . . He works, he votes, generally be prays . . . but he always pays . . . It is plain enough that the Forgotten Man and the Forgotten Woman are the every life and substance of society...
...Socialist's powers. If he were really in deep sympathy with the New Deal, it seems that his inclination should be to assist the President to reassure a nervous business and financial world, rather than to place it, so far as California is concerned, in a condition of plain hysterics...
About all the Japanese that the players could assimiliate was "Ikuradesuke?" Meaning in plain English "How much?"...Another word which often came in handy when the allowances were at the breaking point was "Mo-sukoshi." All of which is more significant as "a little more"...If the morals of geisha girls left much to be desired they were certainly compensated for by the taxi regulations. It seems that there is an unfortunate taboo on escorting ladies home in taxis after midnight. So the procedure was to send the poor girls home alone...At least the taxi fares were reasonable...