Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moley: "We want this to be a very popular journal written in plain, square-toed English for the man in the street and the man on the farm. We are not forgetting the man on the farm...
...were in the field for last week's national championship at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. Ill. The fourth-Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare I-was more interested in her new baby than in golf. But there was someone to take her place: angular Enid Wilson, a tall, plain, extraordinarily placid English girl who has won her own national championship regularly for the last three years. Trying to win the U. S. title as well, she failed in 1931 and 1932. Last week she started out by winning the medal with a 76, three under women...
...Plain readers are not apt to go to Gertrude Stein, with or without introduction. Mahomets in their own right, they insist that Mountain Stein should come to them. And now at last the mountain has come. At one long-deferred bound she has moved from the legendary borders of literature into the very marketplace, to face in person a large audience of men-in-the-street...
...Plain readers, who usually move up above street-level to do their book-reading, after reading Alice B. Toklas will find their faith in the limerick verdict sadly shaken, may begin to understand why Gertrude Stein's importance as a writer has received so many reiterated testimonials from writers of accredited sanity...
What can the plain reader make of all this? If he is in a good humor he will doubtless laugh, but at what? Sober-sided Critic Edmund Wilson gives as his opinion that: "Miss Stein is trying to superinduce a state of mind in which the idea of the nation will seem silly, in which we shall be conscious of ourselves as creatures who do not lend themselves to that conception." Still puzzled, the plain reader dips into another Stein volume (Tender Buttons), to his astonishment brings up these...