Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the clerk of the U. S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, began to read the court minutes one morning last week, no one took much notice of a plain middle-fortyish woman who sat on the front bench, apparently listening. Most eyes were engaged in watching Judge Tillman Davis Johnson settle himself behind his bench for a morning's work. Judge Johnson is 69 and not undistinguished in appearance. Few of the people in the courtroom even noticed the plain lady when she rose from her seat and approached the bench with a folded magazine...
...Chinese port during the whole period of the present confused conditions along the Yangtze Valley. The firing at Nanking on March 24 by U. S. and British men-of-war consisted solely of a barrage laid about a house on a hill overlooking the city wall and in plain view from the river. In this house were the American Consul, his family, and some 25 other Americans and British, and this besieged party was being attacked and rushed by Chinese soldiers intent upon murdering them. This barrage not only saved the lives of the people in this house, who afterwards...
...What I said in that article was the plain, unvarnished, God's truth and I am going to stand back of it to the last spar. The truth is that they are spending money like hell and getting little...
Turning against Rome a face that looks like a vise with two deep sockets for eyes, Louis Cardinal Billot, 81-year-old Frenchman, a foremost theologian, renounced his red hat and repaired last week to France to enter a monastery as plain Father Billot. The alleged cause of his resig nation was the Pope's placing Leon Daudet's newspaper L'Action Francaise on the Index Expurgatorius (thus banning it at once from all Roman Catholic homes). His Holiness' policy was based on the conviction that the wily, obstreperous editors of L'Action were using...
Meantime, rumors spread. The lonely bachelor monarch was again looking for a mate to share his throne. And busybodies-imperious dowagers, pseudo-diplomats, plain tittle-tattlers-began guessing, as they do each year that Boris takes a few days off, as to whom he might choose as his Queen. Names of all the probable and improbable princesses were pondered; the political effects of a dozen possible liasons were dis- cussed and expanded to absurd proportions. But to no avail...