Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made it plain that unless Sun Fo agreed to return to Nanking and support the Acting President's policies, he would oust Sun Fo as Premier. At week's end, Sun Fo had not revealed his decision...
Then came the climactic announcement of secession from the civilized world and the release of the "Ceremonial Dove"--apparently a plain Yard pigeon--which was countered by release of several dozen balloons and a great deal of water from Adams House...
...court regalia. Louis had had enough. He took a job playing with Fate Marable's band on the Mississippi River excursion boats Dixie Bell and Sidney. The pay was the unheard of (for Satchmo) sum of $55 a week. Says he: "I had so much money I just plain didn't know what to do with it." They played such old Storyville favorites as Sugar Foot Stomp, Willie the Weeper and Coal Cart Blues, and Louis held the gay crowds spellbound when he sang the relatively new Basin Street Blues...
Competing newspapers were not so sympathetic. The Cleveland News, which had played down the story of easy divorces, played up the convictions; the Plain Dealer spanked the Press in an editorial on the obligation of the press to "avoid unethical practices." Unrepentant, the Press demanded the reform of the "sloppy, inequitable and disgraceful" divorce-court procedure...
Harvard Law School is presently engaged in raising money from students for a building program. It spends thousands of dollars annually putting little stick and wire fences around its walks. It recently replaced the plain glass in Hastings Hall mail boxes with new, beveled glass. Many students hesitate to contribute money for such silly projects when the school is apparently too cheap to buy a load of gravel for a mired-in parking lot used every day by the very students asked to contribute...