Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...woman with white hair who writes to you, one of those teachers who have taught in the villages "hidden in the folds of France" as well as in the fine cities of the plain. Here as there, within these whitewashed walls where the noble device of the Republic-Liberté, Egalité, Fraternite-imposes itself on the eyes of all as the glorious label of a regime, she teaches moral cleanliness, courage in action, respect for the given word, tolerance. . . . May those who wrought the last hours of our defeat be forever castigated in the history of our country...
...reader's own part which reads into the "Presidency" column a consistent thread of sly cynicism, imputing an oiled, opportunistic hypocrisy to President Roosevelt's every act and statement? Whereas Mr. Willkie is categorically declared to be "honest," and is invariably presented in the colors of a plain blunt man (with some few endearing foibles to be sure) yet withal a disinterested, liberal patriot...
Only experts knew that the Democrats had good cause to worry; that poor local candidates, bad local management, plain Roosevelt coattail-riding was throwing whole States away. As the voters moved off the fence, local estimates of trends set up the Nov. 5 results about as follows...
...understanding of the seriousness of the times, had led him deliberately to take an attitude of sober seriousness. Day in & day out, he refused to make fireworks speeches. It was not that he couldn't; he wouldn't. He clung almost mulishly to his conviction that plain, serious talk will convince the voters, for the voters of 1940 are serious people who want the truth unvarnished...
Deliberately Willkie had divested himself of any possible glamor; distrusting heroics and grandiosity, he had stripped his speeches to bare, plain statements. But the people who had shouted "We Want Willkie!" were not hoping for a simple, humble fellow but for a great, forceful leader, a torchbearer, a prophet, a hero...