Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loafers and Dacron hose have retained their popularity. The most practical shoe is still the Cordovan with plain toe. Contrary to common belief, Cordovan is not a brand name, but refers to any shoe made of horse-hide, the toughest of leathers used in shoemaking...
...most recent library controversy. But in spite of the attempt, the Student Council Library Committee has been able to show that no matter how it may try, or what it may say, the administration cannot reject the undergraduate plea for longer Lamont hours on grounds other than just plain "lack of funds...
There were signs that Communists as well as Socialists were stirring up the dissatisfaction. But it was also plain that young Germans are not eager to get into uniform; most are at best indifferent, willing to serve but not anxious to volunteer. Said one German before a Cologne youth forum: "My whole family was at the front in the last war: my father and my brother-in-law. Our family was bombed out. Now I ask you why I should become a soldier. I have no one to defend...
...flickering light of oil lamps, five gravediggers. working before dawn in London's Highgate Cemetery, dug up the moldy, plain elmwood coffin of Karl Marx, father of Communism, whose remains had lain undisturbed for almost 62 years, ever since he died peacefully in his small London house. They reburied him in a larger Highgate lot, some 200 yards away. There, Britain's Marx Memorial Committee will erect a polished black granite monument (estimated cost: $14,-ooo) with a reverent inscription...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT'S flickering, passionate portrayal of a Spanish dancer (opposite) is the popular favorite at the nation's most personal great museum. The museum was conceived and built by a wild, plain-faced little redhead named Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924). She has been called the "Improper Bostonian...