Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chop house on Prospect Street, famed for its beer; young Adolphe, home from Cornell University, helped in the management, greeted customers, but donned no waiter's costume. Yet, Adolphe Menjou, by his cinema roles, has done more than any man alive to glorify the profession of waiters, both plain and head. . . . With the exception of two brilliant scenes, Mr. Menjou's recent films have not been up to the high standards of his earlier ones (such as A Woman of Paris). Let Mr. Menjou return to those standards, as easily as he sets the standards of a cosmopolitan...
...cordon of police and several plain-clothes men escorted John Coolidge through Chicago, Brule-bound. He reached his family in time to go with them to blind John Taylor's tiny Congregational Church. Just before his sermon Mr. Taylor said: "I take this opportunity of wishing President Coolidge a very happy birthday and many, many happy returns." As everyone knew, Calvin Coolidge would be 56 on the Fourth of July...
...proclaimed: "Garnished with crisp celery and olives and covered with cracked ice, pickles have held the rank of first of the American hors d'oeuvres. The most jaded of appetites respond to the stimulus of the pickle." Comparing notes, jubilant picklepackers reported mounting sales, renewed popularity of pickles, plain and fancy, sweet and sour, dill, warted...
...Observers who know the tenacious French mentality in regions which have been devastated by tramping Teutons were unimpressed. But enough postcards have been sold (50,000) and enough more will be sold to enable Cabby Hartmann to retire in comfort after he has driven back to Berlin. A good, plain, honest man, he wrote to his wife, last week...
...total of $955,054 has been subscribed toward the endowment of the Arnold Arboretum, leading a sum of $44.946 still needed to reach the desired $1,000,000 goal. The Arboretum at Jamaica Plain, a department of the University, is America's greatest hardy garden...