Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religion of Brownshirts. This was disposed of amid roars of ap proval when Keynoter Gericke cried : "Paragraph 24 is something for our Party itself to interpret ! . . . We will go further entirely in the Nazi spirit!" The way to un-Jew the Bible, a majority of Nazi speakers made plain, is to reject the dogma of sin and, from this, reject the concept of a Messiah dying for the sins of others. In a spirit of Nazi compromise it was agreed that "the saintly individuality of Christ is beyond question, but He was only a human being unrelated to God." Exactly...
Candy is not as simple as beefsteak & potatoes. It comes in fancy trademarked packages, in plain packages, by the pound, by the piece and, most important of all, by the bar. It is sold from dusty bins in crossroads general stores, across immaculate counters in swank city candy shops, by slot machines, by drug stores, by department stores, by grocery stores, by stationery stores, by restaurants, by hot-dog stands, by newsstands, by filling stations, even by blacksmith shops. For these retail outlets some 1,000 wholesale candy makers, of which hardly 400 are national, scrabble endlessly, hope their products...
These above outrages were perpetrated by Brown Shirts for the purpose of attempting to frighten and squeeze out of my wife valuable securities she was supposed (assumed) by them to have with her: a plain attempt at robbery...
Production of plain tomato juice began to soar even faster than cocktail production. In 1930 a record tomato juice pack (excluding cocktails) of 946,000 cases was sold out in eight months. Big canners like Libby, Heinz and Campbell had better equipment, distribution and financial backing than College Inn to sell juice to the masses. They can no cocktails and today four-fifths of the industry's production is unspiced juice. College Inn's product still is a quality drink, selling for 50% more than plain tomato juice. Output last year was 350,000 cases...
...safely be called great. Death and its historical illusion then lend the word some meaning, which it lacks in an age addicted to strong language. Boundaries warp perspectives even more: one land's hero is another's hissing, and there is no universal Emily Post to tell plain men in whose presence to doff their hats. But this week, in the name of half a hemisphere, literary Manhattan was ready to do homage to a foreign writer, to acknowledge him" as safely great though still dangerously alive...