Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove that Don Campbell, president of the Painters District Council, and his crony John McGee, president of the Laborers District Council, were actually racketeers who used their labor affiliation to screen a series of more or less dignified burglaries. Prosecutor Cullitan did not have much luck. When two plain-clothes men were assigned to follow them, Messrs. Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn the tide turned. About...
John, Baron Cadman of Silverdale is a traveled, reserved, clean-shaven Staffordshire native, 61 years old, who walks from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named...
Roscoe Pound, for twenty years Dean of the Law School and now University or just plain "roving" professor, told of the difficulty of limbering up his academic teaching technique in his new position and discussed his present activities in an interview at his office in Langdell Hall yesterday...
Vardis Fisher makes it plain that his small-town dwellers are as mixed up as any, that legends of uninhibited frontiers are just legends. One character among his many neurotics points the strait way to salvation. This is Ogden Greb, a former colleague of Psychologist Jim Jones. He goes out to the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho after Jerry turns him down. There he meets an uninhibited girl with a simple heart and a wise head. After an idyllic summer and winter with her (not as convincingly described as the mountain scenery) Greb sheds his introspections...
...made up the dullest chapters of her book. Long (488 pages), overcrowded with the names of poets, A Poet's Life seems both tired and genteel, as if Harriet Monroe had made a last attempt to make her vehement, impoverished, helter-skelter poets intelligible and respectable to plain middleclass, middle-Western citizens, but found their careers as contradictory as their poems...