Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from finding Cordell Hull crude, they were disarmed by his gentle smile, his unquestionable sincerity. To them the ''Good Neighbor Policy" was only a phrase, until Cordell Hull's plain Tennessean neighborliness made it suddenly credible...
...wrote about his future wife. On March 26, 1872, the young grandson of John Quincy Adams informed an English friend: "The young woman calls herself Marian Hooper and belongs to a sort of clan, as all Bostonians do. . . . She is certainly not handsome; nor would she be quite called plain, I think. She is twenty-eight years old. She knows her own mind uncommon well. . . . She talks garrulously, but on the whole pretty sensibly. She is very open to instruction. We shall improve her. She dresses badly. . . . She has enough money to be quite independent. She rules me as only...
...tabless tab collar in candy stripes and in forest tone plain colors are also on the spot this coming winter...
...year, and the predominating shift for the forthcoming year seems to be from the neat, all-over patterns of last season to larger and more clear spaced designs. Stripes are going to be worn in the greatest number this season decause of the harmony they bring with either a plain suit or a striped one. Rep Ties, distinguished by their ribbed surface, are favorites, while the Macclesfield, always a winter favorite is still proper for more formal town suits. Plain color knits and wool ties which go so well with the tweed and shetland suits will also be leading numbers...
Button-Down Collars are like the years--they go on forever. Colorful striped and checked patterns lend themselves to the Button-Down Collar shirt, and of course a full stock of plain color shirts in all the different collar styles are essential in any man's wardrobe...