Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago the American consul in a foreign city was interviewed on behalf of a Polish student who had been trying for six months to obtain a viso for the United States, and were told by the consul in plain terms and in the presence of the applicant that in the last analysis the matter was up to him and he might refuse at season regardless of evidence submitted to him. He added that their policy was to refuse all applications for entrance outside the quota, and to make only rare exceptions...
...While the reason for his personal unpopularity is plain, the reason for his influence is no less intelligible. ... He has, what few men in public life have, and what no one in the present Government has in anything like the same measure, a constant philosophy of affairs and an undeviating aim. . . . 'Damn the consequences' and forge straight ahead is his maxim, and he has learned that by the impetus and driving power of conviction it is possible to ram any gospel down the throats of colleagues who have none...
...William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs: "When he first appeared upon the stage, as plain Mr. Hicks ?the Joynson is an accretion from his marriage?he seems to have had painful tendencies of a Radical order and sat in the Highbury Parliament which met at the Highbury Athenaeum in North London as Radical member for Peterborough. . . . He came first into prominence as a crusading Evangelical...
...that American sentiment is divided. This is not the case, he feels. Foreign governments, in his opinion, are frequently misled into supposing that the American people are not behind the Administration's policy... the President feels that it is important that the attitude of the press should make it plain that it supports the government when it is doing what it can to protect American interests at home and abroad...
...half its diameter, varying not one minute in a month; 2) a jeweled "orange tree," eight inches high, the leaves of emeralds, with ruby fruits, diamond flowers, the whole opening at the pressure of a button to display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern swinging within; 5) the Queen Victoria paper weight, displaying that sovereign carved dumpily...