Word: plaint
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Life's words of plaint were really spoken from the heart. For in no club is to be found a more avid player than Life's President Clair Maxwell. His scores are more often in the 70's than in the 90's, but he knows how poorer players feel. Just as enthusiastic are his brothers-Lee, president of Crowell Publishing Co.; Ray G., advertising agent, and Lloyd, of Williams & Cunnyngham agency, Chicago. The four Brothers Maxwell have a standing challenge to any other foursome of one family, or any foursome of the publishing business. Life...
...individual style; Edna St. Vincent Millay is distinguishable from the ruck of modern poets only by the uniformly high plane of her language, the clarity of her line. Like most of her fellows she is lyrical (i. e. plaintive). In this book of 52 sonnets love is all her plaint. Most tell of love lost, losing, or going out by the window; a few are hortatory...
...Pipe Lines. Insistent has been the plaint of the railroads that the oil companies should not control the transportation of oil through pipe lines. Last week three railroads-Texas & Pacific, St. Louis-Southwestern, International Great Northern (Missouri-Pacific controlled)-heard joyously that two big oil companies had dropped the idea of building pipe lines into the new eastern Texas oil field. Reason thought to be behind the decision was that Texas laws provide that the owner of a pipe line must buy all oil offered, whereas for shipment by rail a company needs buy only what it wishes. Perhaps...
...receive viceregal honors by the dignity of his present office: Chief Justice of the Australian High Court. Born the son of an humble Australian tailor, Sir Isaac will be the first "native" representative of the Crown in a Dominion. The Thunderer. Other London newspapers did not receive the Royal plaint. There was no "hand out" to the press. Alone "The Thunderer" (the London Times} spoke in editorial guise a piece personally approved if not actually written by George V. Excerpts: "There seems reason to doubt whether His Majesty even knows Sir Isaac by sight. . . . "His Majesty must have been...
...case of the CRIMSON's well-known vacillating editorial policy. But the letters which this editorial evoked are more consistent. Mr. Rounds, in yesterday's CRIMSON, paints a doleful picture of the Club with its tiller lashed bearing down hard on the black rocks of "sub-time mediocrity." His plaint that all plays not professionally produced, or even all old plays not professionally revived are mediocre or worse is obviously groundless. The professional theatre is dependent, to a much larger extent than the Dramatic Club, on its box-office. And even the most rabid admirer of the general theatre-going...