Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl, whose stable of racing cars is Europe's most elaborate, failed to make a properly romantic impression on U. S. sportswriters. They found him in a puddle of grease, tinkering his car and fraternizing with U. S. drivers and mechanics who were not rebuked for calling him plain "Howe...
...self-conscious hero, Lewis writes little of the spectacular deeds of heroism that usually fill such memoirs. He loved flying for its own sake-to get up above the clouds and stare at the "level plain of radiant whiteness, sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane...
...concrete solution to offer, he nevertheless suggests that his theoretically powerful audience can prevent war if the desire to do so is genuine. If it does not do so, he announces with ferocious urbanity, "Sirs, here are your blue-prints," in an effort to make terrible alternatives terribly plain...
...have met several members of the Royal family, and of several royal and ex-royal families, during my travels in Europe; I have found them very lovable, unassuming, plain mortals...
There is a gratifying amount of plain common sense in these clippings, the sort to which one turns as a refuge from the partisan gas-clouds that filled the air at the time they were written, and fill it now more than ever. To the cry of inflation, he retorts with the magic word reflation, with the absolute need and desirability of a controlled expansion of credit. To the preposterous moral arguments about the abrogation of the gold clause, he replies with humor, and point to the obvious realities regarding promises to pay in gold that extend far beyond...