Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern vestments and in churches that can afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy of a U. S. millionaire's spouse. Mitre. The bonnet is a curious piece of evolution, being variously altered from a Greek female headdress to a gold plate, to a plain linen cap, to the present splendid crown. It symbolizes in the Roman Church the retention of papal temporal power. As in all the Anglican (and U. S. Episcopal) devices, it has been appropriated from Rome...
...with a note: "Dear Teddy: I am returning the money I borrowed to help at my trial. We didn't need to have no trial, as we elected our district attorney." Then Mr. Roosevelt changed. After his defeat at the Chicago convention in 1912, "it was plain to those who knew Mr. Roosevelt and watched him that the part played by Elihu Root hurt him deeply. . . . Late at night, when the last of his advisers had left him, Mr. Roosevelt was in a state of excitement such as I had never seen before. When left alone he continued...
...Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks of the capitalists." Suddenly this lean dynamo broke from obscurity, captured the hearts of Hungarians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Croatians, Lithuanians, just plain Russians, Italians; organized their strike. His United Front Committee has kept the strikers alive and united, built playgrounds for the children, stood firm on its terms of settlement in the face of numerous idealistic and dog-in-the-manger peace proposals, is prepared to fight all summer if necessary. The Citizens...
...Seventh Day Adventists less apt to be disappointed than just plain Adventists...
...wages to remaining firemen. The council, too, voted to discharge the entire police force, sad-eyed Police Chief B. J. Gillen with his 16 aids.* Sheriff Al Weaver promised to patrol the city. But the local magnates knew that he had but one chief deputy, one office deputy, one plain clothes deputy and four uniformed roadmen to prevent all the county's crime and to catch motor speeders. So they asked Chief Gillen and his platoon to remain on duty, will guarantee them some wages out of the pledged $10,000 until police court and traffic fines and city...