Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tension was increased when at the border town of Venlo (see map), a Dutch car drew up just short of the line. Two men got out, one a member of the Dutch secret service. From the German side of the border came a car carrying six men in plain clothes, evidently Gestapo. They jumped out shooting. The Dutch sleuth fell. The Nazis dragged him and his comrade across the border into Germany, also kidnapping two other men who had sat talking in a nearby tavern...
Last December Thomas Eakins' widow died, in the plain Philadelphia house to which she had gone as a bride in 1884. Fortnight ago the Eakins pictures she had left went on display in adjacent galleries. The first day's sale alone came to more than the $15,000 Eakins made from painting in his 72 years. Eakins' portraits were too explicit to please his indignant sitters, while his interest in the human figure led him, to paint nudes too explicit for his time. When he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "the female models...
...after all had to do the proposing, balked. Then 20 years old, for five years he had been allowed by indulgent parents to taste the pleasures of Bucharest, and already he was beginning to show decided independence in his choice of women. Instead of making up to the rather plain, high-cheek-boned Grand Duchess Olga, he took a fancy to the prettier and more vivacious Grand Duchess Tatiana, the Tsar's second oldest daughter. Since this was not on the schedule, the matchmakers called the whole affair off, and His Imperial Majesty at length showed his distaste...
Ever since the Middle Ages British belfries have pealed messy-sounding medleys of bongs. Less messy than it sounds, this "change-ringing" is done according to strict mathematical schemes, with good old English names like Plain Bob Triples, Grandsire Cinques and Spliced Surprises. A proper piece of change-ringing takes anywhere from six to twelve hours, keeps from five to twelve men busy pulling the bell ropes. Guardians of this little English art are London's Ancient Society of College Youths...
...from a finger or an ear lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked eye, no microscope is needed...