Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industrious, however, all roads lead to eminence. Last week Young Brother, plain "Mister" Louis Bertram Hopkins, was installed as seventh president of Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), in the presence of august trustees, judges and nine college presidents, including Big Brother, the learned Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth, who greatly enjoyed delivering an inaugural address...
Whether or not Governor William W. ("Plain Bill") Brandon of Alabama had "openers"* will never be known, for at that particular moment last week a deputy sheriff and raiding party rudely interrupted the gubernatorial poker game at McQueen's Camp near Magnolia Springs, Ala. Behind the Governor's chair the intruders found a half case of whiskey, and in the room he occupied with several friends there was a suitcase which clinked and gurgled mischievously. In all, 13 quarts of mellow liquor were confiscated. The Governor and his eight companions were arrested, appearing voluntarily at jail...
...demonstrations, held first or the roof of the Postoffice, later on Salisbury Plain and across Bristol Channel, were so successful that the Italian Government invited me home in 1897, to demonstrate at Spezia, and in Rome before King Humbert and Queen Margherita, Again success was mine. The distance over which I could send anc receive messages was constantly increasing-first a room's length then a building's, a mile, four miles ten miles, twenty miles...
Fetish worship, superstititions, and plain personal peculiarities flourish to a large extent among University students, it was ascertained by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...There are already signs of a split in the Dictator's government and the withdrawal of the element which cannot approve of what in plain fact is simple tyranny. Something is certain to happen. The interesting question is what and how soon...