Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the White House had blundered in composing President Roosevelt's letter to the clergy became painfully plain when it was discovered that his secretariat had plagiarized almost word-for-word from an appeal sent to Wisconsin pastors last March by Governor Philip Fox La Follette. That the secretariat had muffed the preparation of a mailing list of "representative clergymen" was revealed not only by the Eaton incident but by a Kansas City preacher who announced that twelve copies of the letter had reached his church, one for every pastor who had ever tended the flock. That President Roosevelt...
...Peabody has made no bones about Groton's being a school for the upper class. Among this class Groton found early favor. To it went Higginsons, Whitneys, Harrimans. Rogerses, Morgans. Theodore Roosevelt sent three sons and some plain words: "I was glad to hear the Rector when he asked you to be careful not to turn out snobs. Now there are in our civic and our social life very much worse creatures than snobs but none more contemptible...
Hopping mad was Publisher James Hammond of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, whose prior bid of $200,000 for the Tennessean bonds had been rejected for no given reason. "It is plain," snapped Publisher Hammond, "that an agency of government has violated our national guarantee of a free press, and the revelation is shocking. We have had a situation which is a threat of Fascism...
Parents who want superior children must, Dr. Kugelmass advises, first put themselves in good physical and nervous condition. College professors, lawyers and doctors breed more Mongolian idiots than do farmers because their mental life is more exhausting.' Very young parents "tend to produce plain citizens. The very old tend to propagate genius. The greater the disparity in age of parents, the more unusual the characteristics of the child-to-be." Best time for conception, says Dr. Kugelmass, "is immediately before or after the menstrual period. It is then coincident with the woman's most intense feelings of affection...
...theme that saves Butterfidd 8 from being a squalid tale is the healthy, unfulfilled companionship of Gloria and Eddie, paralleling the turbulent, often miserable story of Gloria and the older man. Plain hostility to the older generation is apparent in John O'Hara's portraits of men over 40, since he paints them as depraved, smug, or made cowardly by the fear of publicity, writes unconvincingly of Gloria's family life. Gloria and Eddie, rattling off interrupted reminiscences of childhood, wisecracking and communicating in scrambled, mocking cliches, understand one an-other so completely that, John...