Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, two state policemen in Lynn, Massachusetts, packed several pieces of bruised skin and damaged organs from the dead body of Mrs. Mary C. Bridges in a plain cardboard box and sent them to an address in Boston. The next day, Dr. Richard Ford and the Department of Legal Medicine began another in a long series of investigations in violent death. Had Mrs. Bridges been murdered, the police wanted to know, or was it suicide...
...Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling (June 15, 1890): "Mr. Kipling does not write like an artist . . . The stories are just such short, snappy things as the editors of sporting papers know are acceptable to nine-tenths of their readers...
...combination of Who's Who and Burke's Peerage. E.M. Forster was there; so was Novelist Rose Macaulay and Viscount Jowitt and the Earl of Ilchester. The man they had all come to honor, neither peer nor poet, was known to most of the guests as plain...
...positive, affirmative approach . . . is a plain duty of the banking community. [It would give] the public the idea that banking stands for something besides its own special interests. I would expect banking to take its place with progressive industry and organized labor in trying to influence and mold public opinion on the critical economic issues of our times...
According to the Autobiography, smalltown Dr. Williams and Poet Williams with his arty New York friends never got in each other's way. The doctor insists that he fed raw material to the writer, but the proof is plain that the writer (yanking out his typewriter to slap down a few sentences before the doctor's phone rang again) never got the material into satisfying shape. Williams' first books were privately printed, sold not at all and were usually bought up by Writer Williams with the money Dr. Williams passed him. A nonintellectual, he says, he made...