Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hello! Hello! Hello! Yes, I'm here. I'm speaking. Who are you? It's Scotland Yard! The Yard asks you a favor, ladies and gentlemen, not to wipe your wine glasses, as the waiters and plain-clothes men are taking fingerprints...
...Anne of Cleves, a plain German, no longer young. Henry had seen only Holbein's portrait of her. He married her largely to gain influential friends against France. Seeing her for the first time, he "disliked her person." He went through with the ceremony, set her aside...
...been acquiring a financial interest in certain newspapers has provided the occasion for declarations on the importance of an independent press. These declarations are important. Although no evidence exists that the newspapers concerned trimmed their news or editorial policies to suit the interests of the power company, it is plain that the relationship is embarrassing. Their own avowals of independence prove that much. However conscientiously they may have acted, the relationship is ambiguous and cannot be defended...
...cavalry post at Fort Myer, Va. Three Army hostlers went back to regular service. The sum of $15,000 was saved. These White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
...announces the election of Richard McHugh Chilson '31, of New York City, of John Boardman Page '30, of Phoenix, Ariz., and of Prescott Winkley '31, of Medford, to the Literary Board; and of John Handy Henshaw '31, of Rye, N. Y., and of James Bethune Campbell '31, of Jamaica Plain, to the Business Board...