Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight years ago. Rev. James J. ("Father Jimmy") Tompkins. a plain, grizzled parish priest, persuaded St. Xavier University to branch into the field of adult education. Father Jimmy had studied the famed cooperatives begun in Rochdale, England a century ago, had organized Nova Scotian miners and fishermen into study groups to learn about cooperatives...
Kallie Foutz (rhymes with snouts) of Salt Lake City, great-granddaughter of the late much-married (approximately 25 wives) Mormon Brigham Young, recently won a Make-the-Most-of-Yourself contest sponsored by the fashion magazine, Mademoiselle. Like her competitors, 5,000 other plain young women, she submitted pictures, composed a 500-word essay on ''Why I Should Be Chosen To Be Made Over." Long of nose, mousy of hair, skinny of figure, Miss Foutz won with a frank letter showing no self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan...
Jealously guarded by His Majesty's Office of Works is an undated agglomeration of huge monoliths standing in two great concentric circles, two horseshoes and other scattered positions on a rolling hilltop in Salisbury Plain. Until 1915 Stonehenge was privately owned and considered of only tolerably public interest. Then it was presented to the nation and suddenly became an important ruin. Archeologists quarreled over whether Stonehenge was once a druidical temple, a Saxon sepulchre or a sun temple, whether it was early Bronze Age or earlier Neolithic. Meanwhile, rows of teashops, bungalows, airdromes sprang up nearby. Ten years...
Since there had been no army mobilization on this scale in Germany since 1914, the reactions of the German people last week were marked nervousness and alarm -reactions noted and factually cabled by the leading correspondents in Germany, quite unhindered. It was pikestaff plain that Adolf Hitler wanted all Europe to hear about and be frightened by his mobilization. Der Führer, who thus far has had only to rattle the German sword to get what he wanted piecemeal, was rattling his loudest for the benefit of Lord Runciman in Prague...
...vigorous believer in Anglo-American hands-across-the-sea is British Press Titan Lord Beaverbrook (born plain William Maxwell Aitken). Last week, when U. S. Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett arrived in London, Lord Beaverbrook's friendly hand had a distinctly ham quality about it. Speaking through his Daily Express and Evening Standard his lordship found Mr. Gannett eminently qualified to be President, handed him the nomination. "In two years, Gannett may be the President of the U. S.," warned the Standard...