Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except the rawboned, 6 ft.-2 in. North Carolina mountaineer who is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had a good word to say in public for the measure. Against Chairman Doughton's loyal but half-hearted defense rose the critical outcry of thousands of Republicans, businessmen, plain citizens. Declared Republican Ways & Means Committeemen in their minority report...
...multitudes of skins. Doctors have dealt with it for 3,200 years of recorded medical history. Yet Dr. Michael, in his two cardinal discussions of acne vulgaris, was obliged to state: "The pathogenesis of the disorder is still lacking. . . . The therapeutic problem is not yet satisfactorily solved." Doctors, in plain words, do not know the cause of acne, nor its cure...
...Dictator, normally harsh, direct and plain, deliberately engaged with President Litvinoff in an exchange of views on the Ethiopian issue so vague, involved and fuzzy that Geneva minions could not figure out whether Il Duce meant that Italians would appear in the Council this week...
Joyous Mr. Astor decided to buy an 80-ft. yacht and to call his firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled...
...entirely a pleasant sensation, having in it something of the faint excitement and distress that accompanies flying in dreams." Ackerly, a sea captain who had been drafted to do character bits, possessed a quality that Lily considered secretive glamour but which U. S. readers may put down as plain British dullness. Lily was finally ready to run away with him. But after one look at the dingy, unromantic week-end quarters he had found for them, she raced home to mother...