Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These eggs!' he chuckled, when accosted at the H.A.A. office. "Well, perhaps they belong to some new and rare bird, and maybe they will make a permanent contribution to the science of ornithology. But as far as I'm concerned, they're just plain pigeon eggs...
...Washington, Grosvenor Dawe, director of Plain Talk Institute, called for a boycott of all advertisers sponsoring Columbia programs...
Sure it's a swell oath. You made it up, didn't you? And you made it pretty plain what the score was going to be in this teaching racket. Don't forget, Curley told you it was just what the State and the people needed...
...born out of wedlock. She lived to be only five years old, but her life touched the lives of such interesting people as the Shelleys--Shelley appears to have been generally more solicitous for the child's welfare than Byron was. "And did you see Shelley plain?" Allegra did many times. Her death brought genuine grief to Byron, who loved her as the image of himself, after the manner of so many egoistic parents. The Marshesa is justified in emphasizing this point...
...Serajevo, if news of Serbia's satisfactory reply to Austria's ultimatum had not been suppressed for three crucial days-in short, if Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans of all nationalities (except the Serbs) from a desire for war, says: "The bringers of evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters of Zeus. They were a select company whose names stood at the foot...