Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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President Roosevelt." Said Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, at Raleigh, N. C.: "The plain people of today adore Franklin Roosevelt." Discordant notes: ex-Treasury Under Secretary John W. Hanes, in Dallas: "I love and admire, as do you . . . John Nance Garner." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in Denver: "I've been asked to run. Haven't made up my mind...
There, since the pre-boom days of 1921, have gone an annual migration of U. S. citizens-rich and near-rich, pretenders, playboys, playgirls, prostitutes, plain people-to idle, play, and spend a few million dollars in the winter sunshine among the transplanted palms and read about the cold spells they are having up North...
...each other and to our customers of our great love for the dear public and of the duty and privilege of slaving endlessly that it may be well served, we are dangerously close to maudlin sentimentality. ... I would like to see a reaction from . . . back-slapping uplift . . . and plain, unmitigated bunk...
...hill above England's Salisbury Plain a stuffy general stood at the roadside, watching the 17th Light Battery return from a route march. Mules, guns, gunners. A frail, thoughtful major at the head of the column, a red-faced ungentlemanly subaltern in the rear. The general responded more favorably to the sight of a third officer: a fair young second-lieutenant with the right build for a horseman, a careless, well-bred face. Good stuff, this. "Who's that, Benjamin?" "Windrush, sir, Tubby Windrush." "Windrush . . . Windrush ... I knew his father. Get him here, will...
...Subject under discussion was a new Benny Goodman record, which I felt and still feel to be the best swing he has ever done. Record was described at great length, mentioning all the solos and going into ecstatic rhapsodies about the ensemblework. The only trouble was than I just plain forgot to say what the name of the record...