Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Academy of Design, Man- hattan. From Samuel F. B. Morse's portrait of the aged Marquis de Lafayette to George W. Bellows' famed "Club Night," the trim parade moves on. No circus procession, this, but the orderly march of a club of oddfellows in plain clothes. Here and there moves a strong or vivid figure† Sargent Bellows or Pennell† but the exhibit gave critics an opportunity to point out once more that the art of an enterprising commercial century is, by convention, dull. Of the celebrated pictures and sculpture they could find nothing...
...plain, concise, conversational English and hold our regard and subscriptions ? It is not pleasant to be made to feel that someone is trying to see what he can do to the English language. You have shown that you can do it. Why not now be good and let it go at that...
...chief Rhinelander attorney is Isaac Newton Mills. He was born in Connecticut in 1851; in school he was known as a wrangler; at Amherst he had a reputation for vigor, for honesty, for plain speech. Admitted to the bar in 1876, he began to practice law in Mount Vernon and Manhattan. For six years he was an appellate justice...
...road of the emigrant?the struggling peasant family, the fiddling goatherd from the hills, the Colonel's daughter, the son of a small farmer and fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those...
...lucky for the country that the earliest colleges to develop football were the ones that did it. For it is plain to even those who neither run nor read that though Harvard is now rather inconspicuous as a football institution, it has not stepped down from its throne as the great mother of American education...