Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptian headdress is the centre of fright. It was stolen from an Egyptian tomb and has ended up in a plain English country house, which is very properly upset by long, naked arms reaching from behind portières. It is reliably reported that this play was written in all seriousness and in rehearsal evinced a cranky tendency to sound funny at the wrong moment. Therefore it was made funny in a few more spots and blandly billed as burlesque...
Starting at sea level, the caravan slowly plodded through jungles of rich verdure and through luxuriant forests until the trees disappeared and they passed over glacial passes onto the flat barren plain of Tibet...
Brand van Aardt had fallen back on the plain little school mistress, Emma, telling her honestly she was second choice. She had accepted honestly, wanting him even that way. They had grown together, honest friends, not exalted but not unhappy. He had amassed wealth. When Mary Glenn came home with her ineffectual husband and her fraying tissue of appearances, Brand had unobtrusively put them on the farm. It was a livelihood for Elliott Glenn, who was supinely grateful. For Mary it was a refuge, but also a torment. Her snobbery remained swollen while her pretences shriveled and her beauty went...
...night a Scotland Yard detective watches a plain brass knocker and the neatly engraved doorplate which bears the legend "No. 10" and marks the extremely modest Downing Street town-house of the British Prime Minister. There that exuberant countryman, Premier Stanley Baldwin, seems always a trifle like a ruddy-faced squire come up to London for perhaps the fifth or sixth time in his life...
...mongoose loathes the cobra, as the herring fears the shark, as the flapper dodges "lectures," so do editors shun the machinations of a species whose villainy is (to editors) as plain as the nose on your face and as hard to clap your eyes on. This species was for a long time called "press agent." His "hoy," "bunk" and "bull" stories, his hoaxes, false fronts and fabrications were easily detected and. cast out when he was in his professional nonage. Then he became a "publicity agent" and a "moulder of favorable public opinion." If there is anything an editor hates...