Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belied," said Sir Adrian meaningly of Mr. Bennett, "his reputation for plain speaking and anxiety to get things done?which admirable attributes," added the Chamberlain hastily, "are the more conspicuous on account of his well-known, hereditary and passionate loyalty to the Empire...
...George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert is married, has one son, three daughters. With a quizzical expression, bright eyes, a beaked nose, he looks like what he is: an intelligent humorist. Other books: The House-by-the-River, Plain Jane, She Shanties, The Trials of Topsy, Misleading Cases...
...Club Cook Book scorns frippery and froufrou, sets forth many a plain but seasonable and spicy appetizer, many a hearty pièce de résistance. Like its author's conversation these recipes are blunt but pointed, dipped in the salty wit of good sense. Unusual among politicians. Dr. Browne says what he thinks; unique among cookbook authors, he gives many a flat decision on moot questions of food & drink. "Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.'' Of a Clover Club cocktail he says, "It's an awful mixture...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a sincere, hardworking, intellectually honest legislator whose conscientious insurgency against cut-&-dried party government has won him the respectful enmity of the Republican Old Guard: a political emotionalist whose heart is instinctively warm for the "plain people," cold for Big Business: an able opposition leader more concerned with his own convictions than with his following. His term expires March...
...know so much about Chinese Lowestoft, few own or have handled so many fine pieces, as Edward Crowninshield. Running his fingers over the "Van Rensselaer" plates he announced at once that they "didn't feel right." A more careful examination convinced him that the service was of plain Lowestoft porcelain which had been skilfully decorated on top of the glaze, then sandpapered to give approximately the correct "feel...