Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Vainly Steve Early argued, hauled out his Secret Service commission. Vainly he tried to push past the bluecoats, was pushed back in plain sight of 35 waiting newsmen, between Secretary of Treasury Henry Mogenthau and Secretary Marguerite LeHand, who were also kept back by the cops. Steve Early jerked up his knee into the Negro policeman's groin. Then, while an ambulance was called for the policeman, Mr. Early went back upstairs, called Secret Service men, who took the party to the train...
...Henry Wallace, on his record, was an abler administrator than the President. Certainly he knew more law, more about finance, farming and business than the President. Without Franklin Roosevelt's ability to sway the masses, he was nevertheless more effective, man to man, with Senators, Congressmen and just plain people. Earthy, heavily humorous, direct, he inspired admiration but neither idolatrous devotion nor awe. And he had one surpassing quality that Mr. Roosevelt did not have: he was not tolerant of incompetence. No one who was merely loyal worked in Wallace's Department of Agriculture...
...audience. The measure of the Dramatic Club's success is to be seen in the degree to which they have made these demands reasonable for the average audience and have rewarded the attention of the audience. Their remarkable success in so doing reveals much ingenuity, talent and plain hard work. Ingenuity is displayed in the arrangement of the stage and effectiveness of the setting designed by Art Director John Holabird:--a setting of heavy dark drapes of stiff Victorian furniture and antique silver, which adds much to the impressive atmosphere of the production. Talent and hard work alike show...
...endearing Ethel Waters returns to Broadway. As the wife of an errant colored gentleman who has spent more than spare time with a lovely hussy, she prays for him, on his deathbed, gains for him a six-month reprieve from death while the forces of good & evil wrestle, in plain view of the audience, for his soul. Ethel is on the Lawd's side. On Lucifer's is the hussy. The husband, as Actor Dooley Wilson irresistibly suggests, is somewhere in between. Lucifer is further abetted by a sort of diabolical advertising agency where hellish "idea men" plan...
...well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...