Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week, March 18, I was plenty tickled with the way you wrote your article about me being spanked by the SEC. I expect maybe I ought to be scaired but it didn't hurt a bit. The letter the SEC wrote me was just a plain courteous letter, with no threatening and no cuss words, telling me that I had violated the law in advertiseing for a partner in a Public newspaper...
That Joseph Stalin would ever go for a mouse seemed unlikely, but Mr. Williams reported that, in the early days of the Finnish War, plain, studious Soviet Aviatrix Marina Raskova began to be seen riding regularly in the Dictator's official car to the Kremlin and also to his country villa. Friends of neat Miss Raskova, who parts her shiny black hair in the middle and draws it back along her skull into a bun at the rear, confirmed to Secretary Williams before 'he left Moscow that she now seems to be accepted by everyone around the Dictator...
...bravado. For though some day he may need shoes to make tracks, Herr Hitler now has wings to make trouble. The German Air Force has driven home this point by taking the lead in speeding up the tempo of war-in-the-air, and at least one Briton spoke plain truth about the opposing air forces last week. Air Marshal Ernest Leslie Gossage observed that British and Germans were "only sparring, with each side sizing up the other." One of these days, said he, "cities and industrial centres may come in for it too. We ourselves would naturally take offensive...
...Nashville to meet him next day went Sergeant York. With him was his legal battery, canny Country Lawyer John Hale. Lawyer Hale had rocked Producer Lasky at the first of their three conferences by rejecting his clause-ridden Hollywood contract hands down. Drawled Hale: "What we want is a plain old Tennessee contract that simply says what you shall do and what the Sergeant shall...
...have fought on many bat tlefields, but never have I seen your like as warriors. I am proud of you as though you were my own children ; I am as proud of the men from the northern fields as of the sons of Ostro on Bothnia's plain, the Karelian forests, the Hills of Savo, the fields of Hame and Satakunta, the leafy copses of Uusimaa and Sarsinais-Suomi. I am as proud of the sacrifice tendered by the child of the lonely cottage as of the child of the wealthy...