Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleanor Roosevelt : gracious, tall, long-legged, she strides smiling about her small, garden-like campus, on rainy days wears a long military cape. Famed is her habit of drowsing on the platform during lectures by visiting bigwigs. In her book last week President Warren sounded off in brisk, layman's language. Some Warrenisms...
...famed for personal piety. Last week the Ohio Pastors' Convention, meeting in Columbus, where the United Mine Workers were also gathered (see p. 19), sent Mr. Lewis its felicitations and an invitation to come talk. Mr. Lewis went. In no pie-in-the-sky mood, he voiced a layman's proposition which any theologian worth his salt could turn upside down: "Before men can worship, they must eat." Said Preacher Lewis: "I believe in God and the Christian church. I believe any country devoted solely to materialism lacks something. You can draw your object lesson from Germany...
...white man has ever moved there, and the Indians themselves hide from the insects, and cross the streams in fear. The world there, in human terms, is scarcely yet begun. The reader who cares to gain a smattering of what does live there, and how, can get an excellent layman's start with Naturalist Cutright's book...