Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know the taste of adversity. It is my earnest desire to keep a wholesome contact with the plain people...
That was a very brave story for Dr. Hornaday to revive and it gave narrative confidence to a plain & ordinary Texan, one George Henkel, Dallas taxidermist. Said he without winking, thinking or drinking...
...married not only this house in Halkin Street, but also Wintersmoon with its Minstrel's Gallery, and Queen Elizabeth's bed, its three ghosts, its Spanish walk. But to Rosalind, Wintersmoon was merely the depths of Wiltshire: old house half shut up, woods, ponds, peacocks, Salisbury Plain in the distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that kind...
...only is the statement regarding the negroes shooting up the strikers in their barracks not true, but the plain inference of the language "hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company," coupled with the later statement in the paragraph that one of the strikebreakers had been paid $25 by the Coal Company for this purpose, is that the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation knowingly and intentionally set about to cause a breach of the peace, which is not the fact...
...beauty of a printed book, plain or decorated, depends on a number of considerations, of which the design of the type is perhaps the most important. It is no exaggeration to say that in no printed book between the closing years of the fifteenth century and those of the nineteenth was any attempt made to obtain them...