Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Bill Douglas will not put his lanky legs on the high court's august desk or chain-smoke cigarets during hearings, he may often wish he could. That is the way he behaved in the chair of SEC. His care less clothes, sandy hair awry, speech plain as a pikestaff, are essentially characteristic of the young man who only 17 years ago herded sheep and bummed on box cars to get East for his legal education...
...centred in Madrid and for it General Franco's troops in the nearby trenches had grandstand seats. One of the hardest-fought engagements between the Loyalist factions took place near the old Royal Palace, in West Madrid on the high bank of the Manzanares River within plain view of some ten miles of Franco entrenchments. The Communist stronghold was in the partly completed Government buildings on the old race-track course in northeastern Madrid, less than two miles from the Franco trenches in University City. At one time the Communist revolters surged down the Paseo de Recoletos...
...likely to be mistaken. The "rebel" forces had been cleared out of the centre of Madrid, but they were still said to be holding important outskirts with 30,000 men. Furthermore, aid to them was on its way from other fronts. The chances were that the Loyalist forces, within plain view of their common enemies, would fight each other until the Franco Army, last week more a spectator than a fighting force, stepped in and cleaned them...
...which drew heavily on the popular Italian opera, but which also possessed an individuality and spirit more in keeping with English folk music. Such works as "King Arthur" are not operas in the ordinary sense, but combine in a different way music with drama. The story is told in plain, unaccompanied speech, and the music is interjected in incidental interludes, unconnected with the plot. Incidental music of this kind provided Purcell with his most fertile medium; "King Arthur," moreover, is commonly adjudged to include the beat music of the type...
...morning in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Vatican Palace, the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinal Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte . . . will celebrate a solemn mass of the Holy Ghost. The Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals will attend it wearing their woolen robes with plain rochets and capes of violet silk with ermine...