Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea would be a plain but lasting structure in keeping with the homely virtues of Mr. Marshall's life...
...ages that filled the lecture halls of the Hartley Institution. There were venerable gentlemen with fluffy white halos about their erudite pates, who recalled a day when the Association had been rent asunder by the disclosures of Darwin and his interpreter Huxley. There were shingled, short-skirted, plain-spoken young women to whom the vagaries of sex-cell chromosomes and a material conception of the universe were as fit and familar topics of conversation as were knitting and amateur meteorological observations to their grandmothers. There was the mooning notable who wandered, followed by his disciples, for two miles about...
...that case was plain and simple. Neither the indictment nor the statute under which the indictment was framed, contained any mention of evolution. . . . That the forbidden doctrines were taught was freely admitted by the defendant. No defense was therefore open except that of the constitutional validity of the law itself. And yet Darrow sought to browbeat and to bluff the judge into admitting expert evidence upon the soundness of the theory of evolution. And upon refusal he became abusive, highly disrespectful and contemptuous in his conduct toward the court. He had no purpose or motive except publicity and notoriety. After...
...least striking event of the week at Swampscott was a session which the President had with the news correspondents. The import of the meeting was variously garbled, camouflaged or ignored in press dispatches. The plain fact was that Mr. Coolidge raked the correspondents over the coals. He said that their "hot weather reporting" was pretty poor stuff. He suggested that some of them might well give their daily reports a serial title: "Faking with the President." He intimated that it would be better not to send out fake reports oftener than every two weeks- not to report that...
...have been a coincidence, but the fact remained, plain and evident, that from the moment Marshal Pétain took over supreme command of the French armies in Morocco, the war with the rebellious Riffians (TIME, May 11 et seq.) took on a more favorable aspect for the French...