Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louisiana. After a bitter, vituperative, disorderly campaign Governor Huey P. Long, 36-year-old political wildcat, was nominated for the Senate over veteran Democratic Senator Joseph Eugene Ransdell by a 35,000 majority. Senator Ransdell's white goatee quivered with amazemen when "plain people" from "back up the bayous" voted him out of office for the first time in 46 years. Rarely in press or forum had a candidate been as roundly abused as Governor Long. He was called a "disqualified, discredited, inexperienced, erratic, boastful young braggart." Voters were warned that, if nominated and elected, he would "degrade...
...Dizzy Heights." With the deadlock thus total, both parties made irate statements. Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar reported that the Gandhite leaders said to them in substance: "The Viceroy's words afford a further painful insight into government mentality. It is as plain as daylight that from the dizzy heights of Simla [Viceregal Summer Capital in the mountains] India's rulers are unable to understand and appreciate the difficulties of the starving millions living in the plains, whose incessant toil makes government from such a dizzy height at all possible...
Sadly the London Times summed up last week's events in a really brilliant platitude, remarked "It is plain" that at the London Round Table Conference the party of Mahatma Gandhi will be "under-represented...
...mention that the real dynamite in the Sunderland book was its quotations from Prime Minister MacDonald in the days when as an independent Laborite he could say what he chose: "A thousand and one reasons are given for a little more tutelage [for India]. . . . Now plain, practical common sense should come to our rescue. Nobody can imagine that any harm will come from independence. Let independence be granted...
...friend A. B. MacDonald, shrewd crime reporter for the Kansas City Star. Well-trained Reporter MacDonald promptly questioned Lawyer Payne about every woman he had known. Payne spoke freely, elaborately of a dozen or more, skipped lightly over the name of Mrs. Verona Thompson, his former private secretary, "so plain and ordinary no one would look at her." Catching the scent, Howe and MacDonald immediately sought Mrs. Thompson, found her to be an attractive widow, wrung from her an admission that Payne had promised to run off with her after doing away with his wife...