Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male heir. . . . "He died primarily from heart failure. Just as his life had been ruled by his syphilitic infection, so his death was occasioned by its ravages upon his heart and blood vessels." In Henry's daughter Queen Mary, "the evidence of congenital syphilis became, surely, all too plain. Her face was prematurely old and scarred, her hair thin and patchy; she had a 'square head,' with the forehead abnormally protruding." Queen Elizabeth, Henry's other daughter, "suffered a heritage of ill-health from her father . . . knew that she would never bear any children...
Charley Anderson, for example, is a well-meaning, good-hearted aviator who won the Croix de guerre in the War. He has genuine mechanical ability, works as a mechanic for a time, gets along well with plain men when he sees them as individuals. But pursuit of the Big Money corrupts his native talents as well as his good nature, eventually kills him. Dos Passos frames the story of Anderson with thumbnail sketches of Henry Ford, Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor of scientific management; and Thorstein Veblen. Like Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like...
...words are usually from Scripture; the tune unpretentious-nothing so difficult as Bach or Handel. Majority of the anthems which plain churchgoers like, and which their choirs sing, come from the industrious pens of some 20 U. S. anthem-writers. Of these the most prolific is Mrs. Carrie Belle Adams. In Portland, Ore. last week Mrs. Adams sent off to her publishers four new anthems, baked a jelly cake, celebrated her 77th birthday...
...accounts of political exiles from Italy and Germany range from atrocity stories to philosophical discussions of dictatorship, seldom give concrete evidence of how Fascism makes its appearance on the plain streets of some familiar environment. Last week an ironic little volume by a onetime member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller...
...Youngs were plain Nebraska farmers. Old Grandpa Young had raised three healthy sons and always managed to keep a roof over his head and remember to say grace even at breakfast. Grandma Young had always regretted that she did not have a daughter to sew for. Even Great-Grandma Young remained on the scene, a little feebleminded, imagining visitors were long-dead members of her family...