Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge's gown for the reception was described as "rust colored satin-faced crêpe, made on a narrow tube foundation, with a single piece of drapery crossing the skirt at the hips in plain, close lines so as to give a jabot effect in front ... an enameled buckle of rust and jade . . . sleeves long and close-fitting, the neckline square in front with high shoulders . . . string of small jade beads . . . gown eight or possibly nine inches off the floor . . . satin pumps and hosiery of the same neutral tones, with pumps darker than the hosiery...
...Order are already punning violently upon "circle" and "square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist League will be welcomed as the only "thriller" of a scarcely endurable season...
There is an ancient fable concerning a certain prophet, one who had married a wealthy widow, that he stood upon a plain and beckoned to an eminence before him, saying "Come to me, mountain." The mountain moved not. A second time he bade it: "Straightway come hither to me, sir mountain." And still the mountain came not. Thereupon, his patience unexhausted, he gathered up his burnoose, and with appropriate words, since the mountain would not come to him, he went to the mountain. All this happened many years ago, before there was a Congress...
Concerning the settlement of the French War debt, Mr. Churchill stated in plain terms the attitude of His Majesty's Government. '"We consider it essential," he stated, "that any payments made by our debtors in Europe to their creditors in the United States should be accompanied simultaneously and pari passu [with equal pace] by proportionate payments to Britain." (Cheers...
...Sawyer-reported that they had met with great success administering chlorine gas as treatment for respiratory diseases, there was general rejoicing. It was hoped that properly regulated whiffing of pungent, biting, acrid, yellowish fumes of nascent chlorine might one day rid man of all his breathing diseases, from plain "sniffles" on up through asthma and whooping cough to consumption. But such hope was dampened, last week, by a report from Dr. Louis I. Harris of the Health Department of New York City. Impressed by the news of Messrs. Vedder and Sawyer, the Department had opened chlorine clinics last June...