Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Very Fine" Sirs: . . . Unquestionably a very fine and significant cartoon. At what price can you supply me with additional copies? JOHN GLASS Baltimore, Md. Printed on high-grade cardboard, $1. Framed (plain black frame), $2. - ED. "Shame!" Sirs: I am an admirer of the Rev. Dr. John R. Straton. Your cartoon of him as a roach has upset me as few things could. Shame! You may cancel my husband's subscription. PEARL ROSE JACKSON (Mrs. Horace Jackson) New York City TIME will cancel Subscriber Horace Jackson's subscription if and when Subscriber Horace Jackson so orders. - ED. Would...
Whizz! Half a dozen French bicycle police scooted up, with mustaches bristling, and surrounded a small, inoffensive U. S. roadster. With screeching breaks a large limousine drew up also, and out hopped several excited agents of the Surete General (Secret Service). Cried a Surete plain clothes man to the occupant of the roadster: "Are you M. Harold Horan, representative of M. Guillaume Randolph Hearst...
...President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...
...years various persons have schemed to carve upon its surface an overwhelming memorial to the South of the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis were to ride in mighty panoply across the stony bluff, surrounded by acres of sculpture representing the Southern armies. From the plain below, children of unimagined generations would stare upward at these heroically chiseled warriors of ancient days. But the men who were to shape these titanic figures have been only human, vexatious, quibbling...
...employees as follows: "During the years gone by the Erie Railroad has been better known as a freight road than as a carrier of passengers. Perhaps the impression got about that the railroad did not welcome passenger traffic. Whatever it may have been, I want to make it plain now that the Erie is a railroad, not a freight road or a passenger road, but a railroad serving its public with all the kinds of transportation the public needs. We not only want passenger business; we are going after...