Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while we agree with Mr. White's ideas we doubt if he leaves his show in its present form for long. There are too many bare spots, moments when graciousness turns into just plain dullness. More sparkle, more vitality must be had before the New York run is attempted. Everett Marshall and Evelyn Herbert sing some grand songs by Romberg and Hal Skelly still seems to know how to handle his women. With just a little something to do and more help from the chorus "Melody" might uphold a real ideal and, incidentally, be about fifty percent better...
...statesmanship ... it pays to advertise. The medium of caricature is a godsend to ambitious politicians for it exhibits personality in an arresting and compelling manner. . . . The cartoonist draws from physical characteristics their spiritual significance, or, reversing the process, suggestions of abstract qualities which could not otherwise be made plain. It is to be expected that in this translation . . . the translator and his subject should not always see eye to eye. When the subject says. 'I quite appreciate a good cartoon against myself.' I feel there must be something the matter with...
...Last Adam. Not many readers would yet think, of Cozzens in terms of the late great Joseph Conrad, but even fewer will quarrel with the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice. Author Cozzens has a Kiplingesque flair for dramatizing hard facts, a shrewd zest in making a plain tale move and glitter...
...bull to get the epidemic under control, his enemies go to work to put the blame on him. As Board of Health terrier he should have smelled out the rat that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull's plain speaking and low living, rally to get his scalp. With conscious irony Author Cozzens lets the town villain, smart Henry Harris, save Dr. Bull's hair by turning the laugh on his enemies, persuading the town that the Doctor is not such a bad old fellow after...
President Lowell made it plain that he does not criticize the present Administration for failing to recognize the Manchoukuo Government, but for its announcement that it will never recognize gains made by any nation as a result of aggression. "Never before," he said, "has world public opinion been more unanimous on a subject, yet world public opinion has been unable to stop Japan. Nor has the Hoover-Stimson policy had any effect in stopping Japan...