Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burly, brawling youngster which owes much of its growth to World War II, has not helped its case by its frequent contempt for present laws, fair or not. In Georgia, where trucks are limited to a weight of 18,000 Ibs. per axle, many truckers send out spotters in plain cars who pass the word whenever they find a state crew setting up scales along a highway to catch overloaders. (Even so, Georgia last month found that 5% of the trucks checked were guilty of overloading.) In Illinois, where truckers may file their own reports on ton-miles traveled, some...
...from a visit to Australia next May. The royal family apparently hopes that by then Margaret's ardor for Airman Townsend-now neatly isolated in an air attache's job in Brussels -will have cooled. Margaret apparently hopes that her steadfast devotion to Townsend will be so plain to everyone that a way will be found to bless the marriage...
Last week, back in the Blue Angel before packed audiences, Felicia was showing the results of her study. Wearing a plain black dress with a demure neckline, she sang with her hands pressed flat to her sides, used her face to help express the music. Her voice, which last winter often verged on a maudlin wobble, was fine-grained and pure even when she let it out in the climaxes. She ranged from such a lighthearted number as Lucky To Be Me to a torchy version of Come Rain or Come Shine to a dramatic monologue about a girl...
...much her acting that excited audiences; there were dozens of contemporaries who were better actresses, including Sarah Bernhardt. Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Nor was it her looks: she was, if anything, plain, with large, astonished eyes and a nose slightly off-center. The magic seemed to be in her gentle, fluty voice and in her personality -the curious way she had of tossing her head or motioning imploringly to the audience. Through the tumult of her success, she remained as elusive as Tinker Bell. She had few close friends, was rarely seen in public off stage. At one time...
...stop a car heist. Then a stool pigeon tells him that a well-known hood is back in town to pull a bank job. Piece by piece, evidence comes in to connect the hood with the heist. By 9 a.m. the bank in question is staked out with plain clothesmen. At 1 p.m. the visiting hood and his gang strike, as expected. After a savage gun battle, two thugs get away-without the loot. By 5 p.m. the captain has cracked two witnesses and, on their information, caught the rest of the gang on the getaway. He thereupon calmly goes...