Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as 25? from every private power dollar. And after the Ross formula works itself to its 40-year conclusion, the Government apparently will be almost ready to give its power away. Cried the Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Bonneville may be a yardstick to Mr. Ross. To the plain citizen its economics are just slapstick...
...comics. Last week under a Beg Pardon headline, the News performed the rare journalistic trick of apologizing for a statement in the same issue of the paper: "At the request of the Retail Credit Company, the News and the Chicago Tribune-New York News syndicate wish to make it plain that they did not intend to refer to any company or to the quality of the credit investigations of any company...
...late George Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
...extant body of testimony of those who knew Pius-before-the-Vatican, Reporter Morgan adds many a revealing detail. He has twice visited Desio, the Pope's birthplace where he is still referred to as "Pope Ratti," "Cardinal Ratti" or even plain "Achille Ratti." Said a contemporary of Pius XI: "He was in every boyish prank. ... He always liked to jump. ... In a fight with my cousin, he got a bloody nose. He never forgot that. It took him a year but he gave his milk brother [son of Achille Ratti's wet-nurse] something to remember...
Familiar with such devices of abstraction from reality as rapid changes of time, place and angle in the cinema, plain citizens are still unreconciled with corresponding devices in painting like Cubism, which Braque above all living painters most clearly represents. The purpose of The Yellow Cloth is simply to show different, fresher and more beautiful appearances than an ordinary collection of objects on a table would possess. Braque's table is not necessarily out of perspective, since it would be possible to construct a table which would have exactly the same form. In a dining room such a table...