Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...royal hobby became so famous that Yugoslav engineers named him Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, and has carefully borne in mind the example of his powerless father...
...Doctors have never taken much stock in antiseptic gargles except as soothers. In fact, many consider plain hot water just as good as a fancy mixture. Last fortnight the Lancet reported a "totally unexpected" indictment of aspirin gargles. Quoting laboratory studies, they reported that "appreciable quantities of the calcium of the teeth go into solution when an aspirin gargle is used. . . . Over a number of years [the gargle] might well result in permanent damage to the teeth." However, the Lancet added, the teeth are unharmed if equal quantities of bicarbonate of soda are dissolved with aspirin...
...Italian works, The Love of Three Kings, conducted by its Composer Italo Montemezzi. Best opera in English was Verdi's Falstaff, retranslated from the Italian to sound something like Shakespeare. Baritone John Charles Thomas patterned his make-up from a Falstaff beer advertisement, said "Falstaff is just a plain red-nosed comedian to me," acted that way. He got one of his laughs by singing, right out, "Go to hell...
...little yes-men of Europe's little boss men scurried from place to place last week. If the lives of millions of little plain men had not depended on what they did, their actions would have looked a little silly. Joseph Stalin's man, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, arrived in Berlin in the rain and was greeted by Adolf Hitler's men, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. At Anhalt station were also the Ambassadors of China, Turkey and Japan, bowing & scraping and watching Premier Molotov's every gesture for a hint of what Boss Stalin...
...pikestaff-plain chapels which Methodism's Founder John Wesley built had no organ, no steeple, no bell. Most Methodist churches are still on the bare side. But Christ Church's pastor, Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, preacher on NBC's National Radio Pulpit, is all for decoration. Says he: "In the past two decades Protestant churches have made a marked advance in the quality of their church architecture . . . with emphasis on the altar rather than on the pulpit. The theatre type of auditorium is giving way to the stately nave...