Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King's bad books by the scurrilous reports of her enemies, which were to the effect that she was carrying on an "affaire" with some gallant. These were but malicious lies, and that becomes plainer after reading Madame's description of herself: "I have always been plain, and since I had smallpox have become more so, and my figure is outrageous. I am as square as a dice, my skin is red, tinged with yellow; I am beginning to go grey and have pepper-and-salt tresses; there are wrinkles on my forehead and round my eyes...
...unfortunate rulers, but little practical help. On the other hand, if the King signs the bill, then he will alienate the Opposition, which now supports him. In this way he could defer his dethronement, but sooner or later the Opposition would "get" him, as it has recently made plain it would do. The wisest course, but perhaps not safer than signing the bill, would be to refer the whole question to a referendum of the people, many of whom, however, would be incapable of expressing an intelligent opinion on the problem. But each moment of Royal indecision may be fatal...
Certainly not. Bernarr Macfadden, the Nation's best-known body-worshipper, knew perfectly well that whether or not the public partook of his pure, apostolic zeal for "physical culture," it was keenly interested in the "cultured" pictures, "frank statements," "plain advice...
...Cultured" pictures, "frank statements," "plain advice...
...good ship President Madison steamed into the port of Yokohama. Americans were aboard, and a customs officer thought it his plain and insulting duty to breathe a little anti-exclusion spirit into his work. He examined the freeborn citizens of the U. S. for all the 60 seconds of the 60 minutes of an hour, forcing them, among other things, to stand on a wet wooden platform in their bare feet...