Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer, he carried in his trunk as many contracts, in his head as many new plans, as anyone could desire. He had hired such singers as Poland's Gertrud Riinger, whose dramatic soprano made her a favorite in Berlin; Soprano Franca Somigli, who grew up in Manhattan as plain Marian Clarke, won fame four years ago in Europe and delighted Mussolini; Soprano Gina Cigna, who earned a gold medal studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, has been a star at Milan's La Scala ever since Toscanini recommended her there six years ago. Much was expected of Kerstin...
...reasons for the discontinuance of the group are plain. "It really couldn't go on", explains one of its former members, "because it had no intrinsic value. If we continued, there would have been hundreds of other diverse forms and principles, which would have tangled us up. At Yale, for instance, the club became quasi-Fascist. At Columbia, the radical group took it over, and it was turned into an Anti-War Society...
Thoroughly incensed at this climax of a long series of complaints, Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine declared war on the car-watching racket, sent 25 rookies in plain clothes into Hell's Kitchen with orders to arrest adult car-watchers, take urchins to the Juvenile Aid Bureau...
...upon the requirements of its use and its making, is clearly brought out by a "lion" tankard, dated 1674, bearing on its side the arms of the city of London. Except for this engraved work, in which the silversmith presumably had no choice, the body of the article is plain...
...schools, that they haven't done enough work, was studiously omitted from the questionnaire on the grounds that the Committee was afraid that "people wouldn't admit it." Well, perhaps. But to disguise this under "too much time spent in extra-curricular activity" is hardly a step toward the plain-speaking that is necessary if the problem is to be solved...