Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PLAIN MAN'S WARNING (non-copy right) (2). Suppose you had a nation entirely under your personal dominion: a nation for whose energy and enterprise you must find an outlet outside its borders; a nation in whose eyes you aim to shine as a hero far more brightly than Clive in our eyes. And suppose you were a "madman" like Clive, but aiming at an infinitely greater prize- the British Empire- how would you set about it? PLAIN...
...Hotel is significantly hiring "canawlers" to work on the Utica & Black River Railway, the young folk meet again. Dan has to toss Jotham Klore into the water before he can persuade Molly to come and live with him on his new farm. Excellent as are the sharp, penny-plain performances by Miss Walker and Mr. Fonda, they do not dim the legitimate debut of droll Herb Williams. In earmuffs and plug hat, he impersonates a sly dizzard who signs on as driver of the Sarsey Sal. Fortune is not a mule driver by trade. He prefers gambling and his various...
...jeweled ring, a panama hat, a cane. In the 40 years since then Henri has created many a melting masterpiece of his art. His name, no household word, is one to conjure with in the kitchens of the cognoscenti. Last fortnight he proudly served up his autobiography. The plain English carving was executed by Collaborator Boyden Sparkes, but the filling, the sauce, the flavor were pure Henri...
...from slipping farther, think of little else besides; but a few are so close to the ground that their ears hear a prophetic rumbling. A novel without a hero. The Executioner Waits is a modern tragedy in the most present sense: its changing choruses are spoken by and for plain people, in terms as actual as last week's events. But Author Herbst is no journalistic realist, no pamphleteer of Communism. Her concern for her characters is never political or moral: she never justifies or reviles them except through their own mouths and for their own private ends...
...editions of her book had been exhausted before publication date, but many more looked forward to drinking in another recital of carefully muted chamber music. Many a reverent reader, mindful of the Olympian thunders her Fatal Interview brought down,* doffed his hat before he tiptoed into the audience. But plain readers soon discovered that Wine from these Grapes was a good but by no means a great performance...