Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S genealogical researcher a reprimand. James Drummond Dole is a son of the Rev. Charles Fletcher Dole, for 40 years pastor of the First Congregational (Unitarian) Church at Jamaica Plain, Boston. Rev. Dole has been pastor emeritus since...
...Cyril H. D. G. Dillington-Dowse, who pays his vitriolic tribute to the illiteracy of TIME in your issue of June 12, does not appear to be a Who's Who in merrie England should not give you concern. Let me clear the mystery. It appears perfectly plain from the internal evidence of his letter that as butler or doorman of the exclusive Authors Club of London he was tidying up the library and, after the members had departed, when he found TIME unconsumed in the fire place, sat himself down at the writing table and abused the stationery...
Motives. Despite Henry Ford's plain words, some newspapers imputed base motives to him. The New York World published: "Looking for material motives, some ascribe political ambitions to the automobile king. "Mr. Ford's action is taken by political observers at Washington to be the first step in a move toward entering the 1928 campaign for the Presidency. The fact that he chose the Hearst newspapers as the initial vehicle for putting his change of heart before the country is interpreted as indicating William Randolph Hearst will push his candidacy...
WHEREAS, The tonic atmosphere of New Mexico is tired nature's sweet restorer and its civilization as old as yesterday and as young as tomorrow and its history crammed with antiquity and artistic interest as well as with grandeur of natural scenery, of mountain, and plain...
...great German actor's first U. S.-made film.* It concerns one August Schiller, who flourished in Milwaukee back in the days when gentlemen associated that town with beer, and when ladies carried muffs. The first half of the film shows him a pillar of society, plain, foursquare, sunk in a large family. A doting father of six, a pompous cashier in his bank, a champion bowler, he is admirable in all things, full of little unpricked vanities, and simply worshipful in an Olympian set of whiskers that obscure almost a half of his necktie but add immeasurably...