Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...plain fact is that we are late. We are terribly late...
...next fortnight. Win or lose, his case was becoming clear. With his remarks at dozens of rallies, his rear-platform comments at innumerable stops, his occasional statements to the press, the Willkie case added up to a body of writing that was more than ordinary campaign literature. It was plain that by election eve Willkie partisans would know what body of ideas they were voting for, Willkie opponents would know the arguments they were voting against...
Famous for her bizarre creations in the way of hats and gowns, Mme. Schiaparelli nominated for her favorite men's attire plain, old, dependable tweeds. "But not the lifeless ones," she cautioned, "and a good bright tie makes one feel so good...
...England to look at "this happy breed of men, these sunning English." "The cuckoo, the nightingale and the swallow had returned to all the London parks." Some of the sandbags had begun to sprout green things because instead of being filled with sand, they had been filled with plain black dirt. Norway had been lost. In upper-class English drawing rooms they were saying: "England always loses every battle but the last one." Asked about Norway, the chambermaid said: " 'Orrible! 'Orrible! But I 'ear we gave 'em what for: killed millions more of them than they...
...where the trains come in from the north, you could very clearly hear the sobs of the refugees. . . . They came off the trains with their bewildered faces, white faces, bloody faces, faces beaten out of human shape by the Niagaras of human tears that had flowed down them. The plain and tragic and innocent faces of the people, the people who 'must be left nothing but their eyes to weep with,' as Sheridan said." "An old [French] Red Cross nurse . . . put down the bowl of broth she was ladling out to the refugees and . . . took...