"The Holland boys, these were once-in-a-lifetime athletes," says the 88-year-old Clark Strayhan, a lifelong resident of Plain Dealing.
On the other hand, "It must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain.
The place where he'd grown up, Carterville, wasn't a town so much as a curve in the road halfway between Plain Dealing and Springhill, in the northwestern corner of the state.
Her cruelty is all the more hateful because she keeps herself unaware of it — she isn't even a plain-dealing villain.
Her cruelty is all the more hateful because she keeps herself unaware of it—she isn't even a plain-dealing villain.
The Shakespeare on the Sound cast never quite pulls the full meaning out of the lines with more arcane terms or unfamiliar structure, but they do well when the period language is clear to 21st-century ears (e.g., "I am a plain-dealing villain"; "You have killed a sweet lady").
Other days he drove to Plain Dealing and took a spin through town.
By returning to Plain Dealing in such a diminished state, Pershing promised to darken the memory of his and Woodrow's heroic pasts and to serve up a new picture of what loss can do.
Those who want to see a shift towards light patterns and plain dealing also point out that online transactions honestly achieved will be happier and healthier for all concerned — because they will reflect what people actually want.
There was a time, not long before, when people in Plain Dealing had difficulty telling him and Woodrow apart, but a now-distant war had sent only one back to look at, and Pershing, bloated and defeated, was tired of the distinction.
"Everybody knew what Pershing Holland's problem was," says Davis McCall, a contemporary of the twins' who still lives in Plain Dealing.
