Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Spoiled Premiere. Another purpose of the Ribbentrop revelations became plain when it was revealed that, like Gone With the Wind, his big production was to have had a double-barreled big-town premiere-one in Berlin, the other in Rome. But bad weather grounded the plane that was carrying the big show to Rome, so Ambassador Hans Georg von Mackensen had to call off his end of the opening...
...Plain Princess. Under the Grand Duchess Charlotte and her husband, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (Xavier's younger brother), Luxembourg prospered again, until at the outbreak of World War II it was a thriving little country of rich peasants, rich merchants, rich industrialists. It banks for much of Europe, is headquarters of Orbed, big European steel cartel, ranks as tenth steel-producing country of the world. It manufactures also leather and beer. Were it not for its fear of both friends and foes-which can hardly be told apart-Luxembourg would be a perfect Ruritania...
...months. Family after family came in by mule and foot, over foot bridge and mountain trail, the man first, his arms full of quilt and baby, next a passel of children, then the woman, carrying the next to youngest. As a kerosene lamp flung shifting shadows on the plain pine walls, the congregation rejoiced, with prayers, a rousing sermon, hymn singing to Defendant McGehee's guitar...
Less picturesque than such better known family memoirs as Life With Father, Grandma Called It Carnal, Mencken's Happy Days, Author Flexner's story of her girlhood is nevertheless charming Americana. Quaker-plain in the telling, it is noteworthy among oldsters' memoirs for one fact in particular: despite Author Flexner's pleasant memories, she evokes the unmistakable stresses and veiled repressions that lay under the surface...
...moment a dull cloud of misunderstanding hovers over us. But clouds blow away before a clear breeze from the upper skies. If some leader of a political party, some candidate for the presidency, had the courage of Bishop Lawrence to utter plain truths, the cloud would disperse and thousands would leap to his call...