Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...daily readers were exercising, he had been trying to spell out very simply just what was the central issue in the 1940 campaign. The war had obscured the issue, Candidate Franklin Roosevelt talked about loftier things, Candidate Wendell Willkie some how couldn't seem to make it plain...
...conclusion, as plain as the wrinkles on Dr. Terman's face: children with high I. Q.s get along better than average in later life...
Walliser has written, directed and produced scripts for the past eleven years-more than 3,000 scripts, 12,000 shows. Nearly all have followed the soap-opera pattern. Just Plain Bill, Backstage Wife, The Romance of Helen Trent are among those he has directed. For three years he provided ideas for The Gumps for Sidney Smith, quit soon after Smith died. He now writes his stuff so fast he can't remember any of his sequences. After listening to three-quarters of a Peter Quill episode of last year, he admitted he had no idea how it would turn...
...Henry Ward Beecher is John Beecher, who last spring found himself so burned up about current doings that he had to let off his steam in a free-verse pamphlet. Privately printed, not copyrighted, and with no rights reserved, it is written in the great American tradition of plain speech, is fittingly* titled "And I Will Be Heard...
Having thus established his historical identity, John Beecher sounds off on what he thinks of certain famous personages of his own times. What he says are things that probably a large majority of plain Americans have either themselves said, or are itching to say, about Henry Ford, Lindbergh, Hearst, John Lewis, William Green, Earl Browder and others. Beecher does not let his cons black out his pros in his protesting acceptance of the world as it is. But there is one world figure for whom he has absolutely no use: Hitler. "And I Will Be Heard" ends with a cordial...