Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama Canal.* The President, it was reported, would think about it. Meanwhile, the Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability of the present canal to airplane attack. Army engineers begged to differ, with everybody, grouchily suggested that the talk of a Nicaragua canal was plain politics. They pointed out that a canal through Nicaragua would have to penetrate the mountain backbone of that country where it would be exposed to the danger of frequent earthquakes, that it would cost five or more times as much as a new lock in Panama, and that the Panama Canal could...
...Nebraska was an open prairie. For 430 miles from east to west long undulating plains stretched out like the level wheat lands of Russia. Slow-flowing, muddy rivers ran through the plains; villages were few and far apart, travel difficult. Nebraska was a state before there were people there; in 1860 the land where Lincoln, the capital, now stands was open plain. The first settlers found a continuous, nearly flat plateau, covered with long red, shaggy grass. Buffaloes ran the plains, wallowed in hardened out water holes. The winters were hard and short, the summers hot and long. In this...
...understanding. In an editorial, "A Catholic President?" the New Republic says: "If Governor Smith is to have any chance for the [Democratic] nomination, he cannot continue for long to remain silent on questions about which his Catholicism may bias his American statesmanship. . . . Governor Smith can surely make it plain that he is willing to answer any honest and pertinent question about the relationship between his religion and his politics. That is the only way to lay the ghost of the Catholic menace. . . . Not until it is as easy to discuss Catholicism as it is now to discuss Methodism will...
Peddlers used to be called "Bible Leaf Joe," "Dew Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body...
...Mobile seethed in righteous wrath. In homes, in clubs, on streets, audible threats of tar-barrels, feathers, the noose rose out of mutterings and fist-shakings. One evening last week warnings from county officials came to Mr. Darrow, plain-clothes men grouped themselves about his door; on the next morning he fled on the noon train to Chattanooga throwing a parting word of denial of what the Klan said he said, planned to return North...