Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, too, a great many spend their 'spare time playing bridge, poker, or just plain, "bulling." 20.9 per cent do this in the Yard, 28.7 percent in Lowell, 18 per cent in Dunster, and 19.8 per cent in Leverett. At first the CRIMSON's Winchell started to classify those ways of spending time, but he found that this embarrassed people a great deal. For example, there was the chap who solemnly asserted that he spent all his time studying. "Yes, of course," Crimson chell agreed, politely, trying hard to avoid looking at the debrit of last night's poker game...
...difficult to get all the facts underlying the drastic action taken by the faculty in one case and the student council in the other. But it seems plain enough that the subsequent situations were both handled with complete lack of tack, and in a way calculated to promote friction. When five hundred students of City College attempted to present a petition to their president, they were refused admittance. No effort was or has been made to settle the matter in a sensible manner with some regard for the feeling of the undergraduates. To deny them the privillege of petition...
...Congress, reduced to a state of nervous exhaustion, gladly declares a national emergency, puts Hammond in charge, goes home for an indefinite rest. The President makes over his Cabinet with non-political experts, orders currency inflation, goes direct to the people in weekly television talks, cunningly simplified, studiously rehearsed. Plain citizens everywhere throw their hats in the air for Dictator-President Hammond...
...sixty-six, when the fire of most songsters has long since died. Dryden's lyric gift was constant throughout his long and varied literary career. The songs are some of them in the tradition of Catullus and Robert Herrick, some in that of the popular English plain-song. They are most exquisite when most indecent, and very beautiful both when...
...very different and highly superior kettle of fish. Its original French title, Psyche, shows that Author Romains' intention was not fleshly. Though this book is a glorification of the flesh it is also a mystical sublimation of it-a kind of exegetical. philosophical, psychological Song of Songs. For plain readers there is also a plain story. Originally published in France in three parts. The Body's Rapture is issued for limited U. S. consumption in one expensive volume...