Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Baldwin or Ramsay MacDonald had written Marriage, they would never have got to be Prime Ministers. Because Leon Blum is a Frenchman, authorship of this plain-speaking sex treatise, although known to Frenchmen for nearly 30 years, did him no political harm, may indeed have increased confidence in his ability to give leadership to an important French institution. Now, however, with Marriage still selling like wildfire. Premier Blum wishes people would forget he ever wrote the book. The national tittering is beginning to get on his nerves. What Frenchmen titter at is the self-portrait of youthful Poet-Journalist...
...just contributed some $31,000, an oversubscription of around $3,500, to erect a memorial entitled "Beneficience" in honor of the Balls. This is an expression of love and respect that we have for the Ball family, than which there is no finer in the nation. They are just plain folks, unostentatious, friendly, democratic to the core, representative of the best in American life. In an unusual degree they consider their wealth as a public trust...
...politician. George Earle for the first 41 years of his life was a Republican among Republicans, a young socialite who loved polo ponies and show dogs, dinner parties and fine wines. He had inherited a sugar fortune and married Huberta Potter, a Kentucky belle. Like Saint Paul crossing the plain of Damascus, George Earle in 1932, crossing the valley of Depression, suddenly saw a great light. He promptly hit the sawdust trail to political redemption...
...Plain as pikestaffs to most European observers were these facts: i) Now that Rightist General Franco has taken the iron mines and smelters of the Basque country, upon which Britain relies for many of her sinews of war (see below), His Majesty's Government are less favorably disposed than ever toward the Spanish Leftists, and this week official London was considering whether it may be "obliged by circumstances" to grant the Rightists diplomatic recognition. 2) The panic in Soviet Russia over wholesale "treason" and the shaky position of the French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working...
...bullion abroad, the Treasury Department informed them they must surrender it to the U. S. Mint. The sisters learned they would get only $600 for the metal which they had thought was worth $2,000. Chagrined, they faced a choice between waiting for more donations or buying a comparatively plain monstrance from a religious supply house...