Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amused the crowd with a funny speech as it waited for the spectacle. It was nearly midnight when one of the "lynching committee" appeared to announce that he feared violence with so many people around; there would be no show until most of the mob went home. Plain truth seemed to be that the lynching committee had so brutalized the Negro that he had died back in the woods on the banks of the Chipola River before the lynchers had a chance to kill him publicly. He was certainly quite dead when, toward morning, the lynchers dumped his mutilated corpse...
...issue is filled with digs at Princeton but this time the keepers of the Tiger have been permitted a chance to reply. According to a Lampy editor, the funny boys have made it plain to each other that their homes are in the sty and their fare consists of garbage...
...rate, what Mr. Chase calls "yesterday's scientific truth" rouses them to no enthusiasm. Whether this yearning for humanism, salvation, discipline, the Perfect State, social duty, practical reason, a faith that can move mountains, Wisdom, and the rest is a sign of youth, or of the times, or just plain accident, is a matter of opinion. Without giving the "Critic" more cosmic importance than it would wish to have, this reviews is inclined to see in it a sign of the times
...last week he published the old man's informal but official biography. Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career. Devout Catholics will read it, if at all, as a warning; plain readers, as vicarious adventure...
CHAPTERS FOR THE ORTHODOX-Don Marquis-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week, as usual since the world began, plain readers were more inclined to listen to the sweet unreason of kindly old fellows like Will Rogers and Don Marquis than to the expert kidding of more incisive minds...