Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plain God-fearing people-six million strong...
...standing war with poachers. In 1936 Texas was stirred when Luther and John Blanton "crossed the wire" to shoot ducks, were never seen again. One night last week Game Wardens Dawson R. Murchison, Jack McCarley and Jim Robinson were patrolling the mesquite for night poachers-Mexicans or "plain whites" who sneak in after dark and shoot deer which they blind with car headlights or with jacklights fastened on their caps. Seeing two lights weaving through the brush, the wardens crouched until the poachers were a few paces away, then challenged them. The lights went out, a shotgun blared. Warden Murchison...
Until two years ago he played touch football twice a week with his students. To his students Dr. Nash is known also as a man with an encyclopedic memory and a sense of humor, brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a pikestaff, gentlemen." Liberal in politics, he is president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a charter member of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. He was surprised but glad to get the St. Paul's job, for he believes religion should be the centre of education and St. Paul...
Small and stocky, the most arresting thing about him is his speech. He never uses a plain word when there is a fancy one handy. A knife he calls a dirk. Besides giving advice on the air and by mail, the Voice spends about $45,000 a year to provide operations for babies born with harelip or cleft palate, spectacles for myopic children, etc. He also sends boys & girls through college without revealing to them the source of their scholarships, helps unmarried mothers through childbirth...
Such characteristically gay and hopeless verses are likely to make plain readers suspect that Williams has more up his sleeve than his poems express. Dr. Williams invites this suspicion by using a new-fangled code to express a primitive notion of beauty. For so doing, he ranks as predominantly a poetaster...