Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seventh Day Adventists set no exact date for the coming of Christ, and so they are spared the numerous dissappointments of plain Adventists...
...accustomed to "sneaking up on one another"- in a commercial way-and hamstringing one another through one another's trade sinews. The New England manufacturers had begun this cutlass-heaving, had grown potent - in a commercial way. Southern manufacturers, as they set themselves up along the Atlantic coastal plain, acquired the same tactics. This became all the easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake of the cheap mountain labor of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. And last week these bitter competitors were bid to an agape, a love feast. As they assembled...
Take in one hand plain, unmedicated soap, and in the other a clean tooth brush. Lather the brush. Open the mouth. Scrub...
...PLAIN TALES OP THE NORTH- Thierry Mallet-Putnam ($2). Captain Mallet is president of a fur company (Revillon Freres) whose flag, flapping at the masthead of a trading schooner, has been watched for and hailed by Indians and Eskimos on the headlands of Labrador and Hudson's Bay for two centuries. Besides traveling in Siberia and soldiering in France, Captain Mallet has visited these hardy trappers many times. Evidently he has found time for good reading on his trips, or maybe it is through his Gallic inheritance that he comes by the lucid, restrained prose in which, a page...
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit! Last year every girl had in her wardrobe a jaunty little toque called "The Helen Wills." This year, despite the fashionableness of those big hats that make plain girls pretty and conceal the looks of pretty girls, so that it is equal for every one, Helen Wills retains the chapeau of which she is godmother. Her own mother, the handsome woman who warned off the Panama, is her "best friend." They go to luncheons and fêtes and their hairdresser together; together they receive the adulation of the public...