Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British fleet controls the Mediterranean, that MacDonald is holding out a tempting offer of colonies which Italy never received for her part in the World War, and that 11 Duce has been industriously hating France since he came to power. England's interests in curtailing the French are plain enough. For one thing, London would like to regain its historic role as arbiter of Europe through a position as they key factor in the balance of power. Moreover, she is noticeably worried over the size of the French air force...
...presentness of the past," but if there is any connected idea (there is no story) in the Cantos, it is too elusive for amateur readers, too buried under Greek, Latin, Provencal, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese allusions. Stunned by the almost continuous avalanche of changing subjects, the plain reader may be too dizzied to get far, but if he perseveres and keeps his eyes open he should find some picture-passages to please...
...Jolly John and his crowd continue to play ball with the administration, and both parties find room in the trough. Meantime a series of mysterious murders, in which the victim invariably has a hoof-mark around the left eye, helps make plain people restive. When the city goes bankrupt for $576,000,000, with its Mayor junketing in Paris, public apathy is at last aroused. At a property-owners' protest banquet, winged words fan the flames. "Poison'ly, Mister Tussmester and fellow goats, poison'ly, I'm getting tired eating all the tin kens our friends...
Basically Hitlerism is a doctrine of confused tenets, further confused by Orator Hitler as he goes along. Take, for example, the plain, basic word capital. No thinker himself, Herr Hitler has confessed that Hitlerism's tenets about capital are borrowed from a onetime building engineer, Herr Gottfried Feder, recently appointed by Chancellor Hitler to the Reichstag Finance Committee. According to Feder there are two kinds of capital: 1) raffendes or "grasping capital" hoarded in banks, from which interest or dividends is received by such rascals as Jews; and 2) schaffendes or "creative capital" which is the life blood...
...Plantation. And this year Hobart Ames was able to show his guests many a covey of the curious red quail which, discovered on his place, he has been fostering ardently. These birds, which he believes to be a rare species rather than a mutation, have all the characteristics of plain bob white but their plumage is a dark reddish brown, solid except for, on some specimens, one round white spot on the breast. From three cocks and a hen trapped five years ago Mr. Ames has raised and released several hundred bred true to the new type. Though they...