Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt." Said Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, at Raleigh, N. C.: "The plain people of today adore Franklin Roosevelt." Discordant notes: ex-Treasury Under Secretary John W. Hanes, in Dallas: "I love and admire, as do you . . . John Nance Garner." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in Denver: "I've been asked to run. Haven't made up my mind...
...Subject under discussion was a new Benny Goodman record, which I felt and still feel to be the best swing he has ever done. Record was described at great length, mentioning all the solos and going into ecstatic rhapsodies about the ensemblework. The only trouble was than I just plain forgot to say what the name of the record...
Three Rooms. His life is mostly spent inside the foreboding walls of that collection of churches, palaces and barracks in Moscow called the Kremlin. His office is large and plain, decorated only by the pictures of Marx and Engels and a death mask in white plaster of Lenin. His private apartment, once the dwelling of the Kremlin's military commander, is only three rooms...
Last fortnight, radio operators on other ships in the North Atlantic were startled to hear a British battleship broadcast one day, right out in plain English: "Read Luke XV: 6." Bible looker-uppers found this quotation : ". . . Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost." (One of the troopships had strayed in fog, been shepherded back by two destroyers...