Word: artless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sally is the only female aide extant in the top Allied command. Recently she was discussing an aide's tribulations with Eisenhower's aide, Commander Harry C. ("Butch") Butcher, and wound up with an artless: "But of course I like it. ... After all, it's really women's work, isn't it?" For once, smooth-tongued Butch was speechless. Someone told Tooey about it, and he spread the story with fiendish glee...
...These artless British queries were inspired by the presence of thousands of U.S. fighting men in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand. OWI undertakes to answer such questions in a weekly radio program called Answering You. In England the program has risen to fourth place on BBC's "inspirational" list, with an estimated audience...
Right out of the artless Dodger tradition is the resolve of the movie baseball team's matronly owner (Sara Allgood) to bring Butterfingers back to manage her perennial losers. One of Butterfingers' previous boggles had lost the team a pennant, earned him a seven-year banishment from Brooklyn...
...deed of gift was many deeds of war) To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become. Whatever America becomes, she will bear, to her lasting beautification, the pioneer trace of Robert Frost...
...nostalgia for antimacassars or oil lamps. The nostalgia is for a democracy that was real because in the general dearth of material things, nobody was able to have much more than anybody else. It was integral and uniform, and its patterns were as obvious and as artless as the patterns in its Brussels carpets...