Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...resort to the ancient device of calling names and take refuge behind a purported statement of an unnamed porter given you second hand. How far short you have fallen in the art of accurate reporting the following affidavits by two Evening Public Ledger executives will make all too plain...
Back in Tokyo, Correspondent Young addressed the American Club, told Japanese businessmen about his travels in China, tried to file a follow-up story on his tour. One morning to his suite in the Imperial Hotel came a squad of busy little plain-clothes policemen. They ransacked the Young apartment, carted off armloads of letters, notes, pictures and Jimmy, locked him in a cell...
Artistically a success, the show flopped at the box office, sold only $5,328 worth of art in three weeks. Woebegone were British artists, three-fourths of whom have earned nothing since the war began. Irrepressible George Bernard Shaw advised selling the pictures for "two pounds plain and five pounds colored...
...Ella was not absurd, and it is the special virtue of Jenny Ballou's book that she makes that plain. Some of Ella's first poems were "lovely in their lilt, overbrimming with an authentic freshness of emotion." She had great energy, great sincerity, great generosity, and on occasion great good sense. Even when she became a fixture of yellow journalism, her spontaneity remained untainted by cynicism. What was it that led her on into the self-deception that finally broke down in her last tragic years? ("I shall be forgotten," she said, "while more careful and conscientious...
Born "dead" and resuscitated by brandy massage 35 years ago in a "cottagy" house in the seaport town of Birkenhead, was Lady Eleanor Smith. Her father was the Earl of Birkenhead, a tall, olive-skinned aristocrat who started life as plain F. E. Smith. Her paternal great-grandmother was a gypsy named Bathsheba. As between her title and her gypsy blood, Lady Eleanor much prefers to have inherited the gypsy blood. The reason will be readily seen in her autobiography, Life's a Circus: Hotblooded Bathsheba is the perfect alibi for Lady Eleanor's Bohemian adventures, particularly...