Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diehards' overweening confidence that the Government will secure a second term of office at the next general election will soon prove a fool's paradise. It's as plain as houses that at least 60% of the country will be against them...
Last week, on the broad Canberra plain, the new Parliament House stood completed, smelling strongly of fresh paint and plaster. Teeming were the Canberra Hotel ("finest in the Southern Hemisphere"), the Ainslee, the Kurrajong, the Acton Hotel, and the three large boarding hotels which the Government has erected for civil servants until their cottages and houses are finished...
...wish to make it plain that we are more interested in contributing to the great architecture of the world than in standardizing the bricks and mortar of which it must be made." Thus Milton B. Medary Jr., Philadelphian, president of the American Institute of Architects, epitomizing the purpose for which the Institute has reorganized its Committee on Allied Arts. In order to emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome...
...sorry that women have been brought into the House of Commons. I am still more sorry that women have been admitted to juries. The plain fact is that men and women cannot be brought together in association without either attracting one another or irritating one another." Thus, last week, wrote that most respected bachelor, Lord Hugh Cecil, 57, Conservative M. P., Privy Councilor, LL.D., High Churchman, War-time Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps...
...annual reparations payments to which we are committed under the Dawes Plan represent a greater sum than the entire pre-War budget of the German Empire. Only foreign loans have enabled the Dawes Plan to operate hitherto, and the plain fact is that Germany cannot go on borrowing abroad forever...