Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic City a score of sculptors and architects journeyed hopefully with their models which they set around the sun parlor of the Ambassador Hotel. The executive council made inspections, heard explanations and descriptions. Plain men themselves, they were puzzled by the artistic conceptions of Labor placed before them. Cried President William Green: "I'm wearied of always seeing Labor pictured bearing a burden. Labor is free." Remarked another troubled councilman: "Some of these would be all right if the sculptor could be chained to the job to tell people what it's all about. But what could...
This month Mrs. Willebrandt, private citizen, has been telling what she knows about Prohibition. Her articles, syndicated by Publicist David Lawrence's alert Current News Features, Inc., have been appearing in the New York Times, Chicago Daily News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer & many another. Following is a synopsis of her revelations, remedies, sentiments...
Stupid officials in Bengal had taken the least efficient means of trying to hush up something likely to embarrass the new Prime Minister. It was one thing for plain citizen MacDonald to write for the British Laborite London Daily Herald two years ago certain words quoted by Dr. Sunderland. It is quite another thing to let such words go booming around India today, now that citizen MacDonald is also Prime Minister. The two-year old possibly "seditious"* words of Scot MacDonald are: "The moral justification that has always been made for the existence of our empire amongst subject peoples...
Herbert Brown, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, explained that in 1926 out of 5,120 convictions under the drug act, 1,540 persons went to jail whereas out of 37,018 convictions under the Volstead Act, only 765 men received jail sentences. Plain is the picture of what would have happened had 'leggers been sentenced to prison in the same proportion as violators of other U. S. laws...
...That's not honest. Why didn't you approach me with the microphone in plain sight...