Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's Battle of Anacostia Flats, "not a single person was injured by the troops called out in Washington in response to the appeal of local authorities. The troops ended the bloodshed which was then in progress through conflicts between rioters and police. The issue here is plain and not to be obscured by such misstatements...
Into St. Peter's, hung with red-&-gold draperies and flaming with myriad chandeliers, are to crowd Roman and foreign notables, thousands of plain folk and pilgrims from all lands. On its lofty walls they behold enormous oil paintings of Bernadette Soubirous and her good works in life. Pope Pius XI enters, in triple crown and embroidered white cope, borne aloft on his sedia gestatoria. He proceeds to the altar, followed by cardinals, archbishops, patriarchs, bishops, monsignori and priests, who kiss his ring and the cross on his slipper. The air is heavy with incense...
Critics, the sacred geese whose panicky cackling rouses the citadel of plain men against the night attack of some threateningly new idea, are sometimes better than that. In Science, such men as J. W. N. Sullivan (TIME, Sept. 5, 1932; Oct. 23), in Art and Literature, Julius Meier-Graefe, are not so much sentries as interpreters. Bilingual, they can read the barbaric ensigns of these seeming foreigners and translate them into symbols that will not frighten the commonest sense. Interpreter Meier-Graefe's biography of crazy Painter van Gogh is known already to a few U. S. readers...
...squabble on band in the official family. Instead of a revolt by the brain trust against Mr. Roosevelt, the truth is serious differences of opinion have arisen between George N. Peek, of the A.A.A., and Assistant Secretary Tugwell of the Department of Agriculture, which have resulted in some plain speaking on the part of all concerned...
Frankness, a pardonable virtue, seems to be entering the world of diplomatic notes, a field long held by the flowery evasion. First Russia and Japan called each other a liar with an admirable, if startling, baldness. Now comes President Roosevelt's plain answer to a long, decorous request from the President of Haiti that the United States withdraw its fiscal control over that country. While expressing a kindly word for the record of the Haitian government, nonetheless our own F. D. could not find it in his heart to grant this request. And why not? Because, as the Transcript neatly...