Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just about everyone except Japanese apologists, the reasons why Japan acted when and as she did this year in China are three, and they are pikestaff plain: 1) Japan saw the U. S. adopt a Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention...
...grueling week of speeches Der Führer went on the eve of the Congress to Nurnberg's annual command performance of his favorite opera, a five-hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely Der Führer...
Only a handful of Friends wore plain bonnets or broad-brimmed black hats, but the use of the oldtime Quaker ''thee" and "thy" was common. No one quaked or trembled, as would once have been permissible, but there was some public weeping, notably by British Quaker Harvey, who sobbed after being moved to pray that he might become a "candle of the Lord"-a traditional Quaker expression. The meetings at which such prayers were voiced, in accordance with Quaker belief that the Lord furnishes inspiration,, for them, were the first in Quaker history at which portable microphones were...
...water by admitting that he had himself contracted to buy 45,000 shares of his company's stock at $1, a fact not mentioned in the registration statement. To the Commission's counsel, E. Forrest Tancer and H. Victor Schwimmer, this seemed a willful omission-a plain violation of the Securities Act, punishable by fine or imprisonment. Usual procedure in such cases is for SEC to hand over its material to the Department of Justice, but Lawyers Tancer and Schwimmer felt that delay might tempt Mr. Low into Ontario where he would be unable to clarify the stock...
Though Bramah characters are, almost invariably, excruciatingly polite no matter what their feelings, they occasionally break into such plain-&-fancy cussing as "Thou concave-eyed and mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...