Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association charges that most of the Arboretum's funds were meant for a herbarium and library that would be "integrated with" and "in the same place" as the collection of living trees and shrubs--in Jamaica Plain. "We are especially disturbed over the Corporation's refusal to let the courts decide the issue," Hemenway stated yesterday...
...suit, filed in the State Supreme Court on December 4, charges that the Corporation went beyond its powers as sole trustee of the Arboretum when in 1953 it moved most of that institution's library and dried plant specimens from Jamaica Plain to a new, University-owned building in Cambridge...
...fifth-grade geography class, ten-year-old John Mele wrote in his notebook: "Where along the Atlantic Coastal Plain can oysters be found?" In a seventh-grade history class, twelve-year-old Andrea Gagliardo was studying "The Missionaries in Florida and Louisiana." In an eighth-grade classroom, a boy had written in his spelling book: SKELETON, AMBULANCE, also "What is the definition of fiery...
When the Ritz Carlton moved uptown to Madison Avene and 61st Street, they changed the name of the hotel to just plain Carlton. But the bar remained the Ritz Carlton Bar. It's not really a bar. It's a sprawling, antiseptic, and canaped cocktail lounge, staffed by maitres de and cluttered with bowls of peanuts...
...Horse's Mouth. The wine of genius mixed with just plain sewage in an uneven but arresting version of Joyce Gary's memorable novel about a lovable monomaniac painter, with Alec Guinness as star and adapter...