Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before they get jobs, the Grand Duchess and the Prince not only use the subtle wiles of conferring lofty titles on their landlords, but are also driven to a little plain theft. When they learn that the French government, highly solicitous of such unusual guests, has been having the grocers look the other way while Her Highness lifts a few artichokes, they are righteously enraged at the mean deception practiced upon them...
Hollywood premieres are noted for fancy clothes and phoney congratulations. The first showing of the Department of Agriculture's documentary film, The River, at the little Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River...
...this difficult work. This week she makes her U. S. operatic debut, disdaining a wig, as a 100% blonde Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in the Chicago City Opera. Accompanied by her husky, jovial husband, a onetime Berlin taxicab driver who is now her manager, Mme Sack lives plainly in plain hotels, arises daily at 7 a. m., dislikes to practice. Of her voice, Soprano Sack says: "Every manager, everywhere I go, wants me to give the public my high notes. Very well, I give them. But I give them as a kind of extra present. Please understand...
President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads summarized the current gloom of railroaders by further plain speaking: "The margin between income and operating expenses has been so thin that the railroads face a real crisis. Because there is no other way to meet this crisis than to make a general increase in rates and fares, the railroads will ask the commission to expedite consideration of the matter. Facing the railroads today is an increase in operating costs totaling $663,303,000 annually since early in 1933. Of that amount, more than one-half results from new taxes...
...Meaning: boss, hillock, glen, plain, housewife, small river...