Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notable fence-sitters are the Cowles family's Des Moines Register and Tribune. Last week the Independent Democratic Cleveland Plain Dealer slid off its fence with a brief editorial declaring: "We prefer Mr. Roosevelt because his philosophy of government is attuned to what we regard as inevitable social and economic trends...
...over in Berlin the understandings to which Italy and Germany have come in recent weeks, more or less secretly. A special sleeping-car train then took them to Berchtesgaden, whence they drove to the chalet Haus Wachenfeld, the Bavarian snuggery of Der Führer. Corporal Hitler, in a plain brown tunic with a large swastika just above the left elbow, saluted General Ciano who returned the salute. They talked for four hours. Simultaneously in Rome congratulatory messages poured in upon King Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena, for the day marked their 40th wedding anniversary...
...Smith's young women's magazine Mademoiselle began a series of articles on beauty and charm. One of its most interested readers was a 21-year-old Boston nurse named Barbara E. Phillips, who wanted to go on the stage. Miss Phillips, who considered herself a very plain girl, was sufficiently impressed to sit down at her typewriter, compose a long, yearning letter to the magazine. To Mademoiselle's editors Barbara Phillips announced that, though she also read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly, and could identify such widely assorted characters as Vincent...
...already over-busy, and in discouraging most advisors from devoting any appreciable attempt to advising. This irritating condition continues year by year disguised in President's reports with honeyed words and justified in the college's eyes by the lack of money to correct it. The policy is plain short-sightedness on the part of a corporation which every year gives Freshmen increased discretion in course selection and new fields of study. By neglecting first-year men they are building an elaborate scholastic temple on foundations of sand...
...interesting to note that these initials have been absorbed into more languages than any other English expression, second only to the American "O. K." And while the pronunciation of the magic word in German or French may not be at once recognizable, the handwriting on the wall is always plain to any literate person, thus demonstrating simultaneously the advantages of an education, and the marvellous potentialities of an international languages, such as Esperanto, to supplement that of love...