Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crackpot! Crackpot!" echoed many a tough East Side urchin as Teacher walked into her classroom next day. Before long it was plain that, whether or not 1,500 of them were insane, all 36,000 of the city's teachers were hopping mad. Indignant mass-meetings called for a reprimand, for proof, for Dr. Altman's dismissal, for an investigation of his competence by the New York Academy of Medicine. "He sees insanity in everybody," cried Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers Union...
Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...professionals in the world to teach his son the game, held the U. S. title for 20 years running, the 200 or so able court-tennis players in the U. S. have shown a tendency to drop the jeu classique, their game's characteristic and peculiar chopstroke, for plain hard-hitting strokes, borrowed from lawn tennis. Neither of last week's finalists had much of Gould's finesse. Van Alen, defending the title he won for the first time last year, used neat, well-timed cuts. Phipps hit harder, tallied many a point on shots into...
...such a boisterously ironic tone, well calculated to soothe skeptics into pleased attention, does "Unofficial Observer" launch his Who's Who of the New Deal. Plain citizens will be impressed by his breezy air of impartiality and impatient candor. But this hard-boiled patter thinly cloaks an earnest enthusiasm for the Administration and most of its works. More effective as propaganda for the New Deal than would be the paean of a paid publicity man, The New Dealers well deserves the Order of the Blue Eagle, first class...
...that their actions are like the sputtering of a string of sausages in a frying pan. Her defenders reply that she has more zest in her capable little finger than there is in the ineffective fists of all her highbrow critics. Critics pay little attention to Fannie Hurst, but plain readers have made her one of the most popular dishes on the counter. Anitra's Dance tells of a wild household of hyphenated Americans noisily existing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Head of the house was Papa Bruno, famed musician who somehow managed to do his composing...