Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...especially notable in view of the books by Author Stuart that have preceded it. He won critical acclaim with The Colored Dome and Pigeon Irish-imaginative, poetical, mystical novels in which metaphors skyrocketed and prose flickered so brightly that characters and plot were hard to make out. Julie is plain as an old shoe. For Author Stuart describes Julie's conquering of her fear of the world as a slow process, almost imperceptible, taking place principally when she is unaware...
Paraguay, which year ago withdrew from the League of Nations, last week sent word to Geneva that it was also resigning membership in the Permanent Court of International Justice, located at The Hague. No official explanation was attached but Paraguay's plain purpose was to prevent Bolivia from hauling the still-unsettled Gran Chaco dispute before that tribunal. Both nations signed an optional clause in the World Court protocol and statutes which provided that if one nation wished to bring a case into court, the other signatory nation involved was bound to submit to its jurisdiction. Bolivia is still...
Down the aisle dividing the men and women in the Matinecock Meeting House in Glen Cove. L. I. marched satin-gowned Florence Elizabeth Willits and Isaac Hicks Cocks. They sat down on a plain wooden bench facing 200 guests. For several minutes there was no sound in the ancient frame building. At length, when the spirit moved them, Florence Willits and Isaac Cocks rose and faced each other. The man took the girl's hand, declared he would take her for his wife. The girl repeated the pledge. Then they sat down. Thereupon everyone present signed a wedding certificate...
...Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma without losing a passenger. Then, fortnight ago, it plunged through a flood-weakened trestle over raging Custer Creek in Montana, carrying 47 persons to death. Last week the jinx again perched on the westbound Olympian's cowcatcher. Steaming over the same high Montana plain, the train passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer Creek, the Olympian was supposed to have waited until an eastbound special, carrying 120 CCC boys...
Died. Princess Jane di San Faustino, 74; of pneumonia; in Rome. Born plain Jane Campbell in Bernardsville, N. J. she married a prince, became the sharp-tongued social queen of Rome for nearly half a century...