Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that day, as it had for weeks past, in many a citizen's mind. The U. S. must have unity in national defense, said he significantly, "Lest we each hang separately." Evidence that that unity was lacking had cropped up with increasing frequency in recent weeks. It was plain in the strike at the Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer...
Others officers for the coming year include Bowden Broadwater '42 of Oakland, Md. and 53 Mt. Auburn St., Pegasus; John Bottomly '43 of Jamaica Plain and Dunster House, Business Manager; Frederick A. Jacobi '43 of Northampton, Mass. and Lowell House, Circulation Manager...
...Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...plain American, Wally had to have a tooth pulled...
Most autobiographies centre on the autobiographer, but Playwright Williams', for reasons that become plain as the play progresses, centres on the character played by Ethel Barrymore. She is a cultivated, middle-aged spinster who moves to a Welsh village toward the end of the 19th Century, bent on educating the local coal miners. Discouraged by tory opposition, she gets the will to go on from the presence of one coal-stained boy who promises great talent...