Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...
...still talks harsh Ohio, still wears a Left Bank haircut and beret, she confesses to being scared of heights and crowds until she gets her head under the black cloth. Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen façades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers...
Theme of this gracefully padded first novel: intellectuals are hawks, plain citizens are sparrows. Intellectual Kipter, a bearded, philosophical, moulting bird, goes to board in a nest of lower-middle-class sparrows: a voluptuous ex-chorus girl and her 17-year-old niece. Fascinated, the female sparrows twitter around his bedroom, while Kipter pays them cautious compliments. Blamed for fouling the nest when he merely pushes the landlady out to protect his virtue, the hawk makes a back-window exit just in time to save his tail feathers. Hawk Among the Sparrows is less a warning to high-flying intellectuals...
Thus began over the radio, in full hearing of everyone in Spain, the strangest peace negotiations that ever took place. Somewhere between "honorable" peace and "victorious" peace hard-working negotiators might be able to find an adjective which would bring plain peace to Spain. No doubt remained of the war-weariness on the Loyalist side last week. Little doubt remained that the Franco Government was anxious to wind up the 32-months'-old war that has killed more than 1,000,000 people, exiled half as many. Well it might, for even the Loyalists assumed that when peace came...
...this U. S. visit, Professor Krogh will lecture at the Universities of Minnesota and Chicago as well as Swarthmore, attend biological meetings in Manhattan and elsewhere, taking with him his plain, patient wife, who is a doctor of medicine and has done valuable research on metabolism. Born to a brewer in Denmark's Jutland 65 years ago, August Krogh (pronounced Krug) was fascinated by beetle larvae at the age of four. At the University of Copenhagen he ripped with great speed and facility through courses in physics, chemistry and biology, specialized in zoology, studied the respiration of marine animals...