Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governors of seven states have been heard from, as have businessmen, Congressmen, plain citizens, radio broadcasters, journalists (Wrote Edgar Ansel Mowrer. New York Post columnist and foreign affairs expert: "Never before, in my judgment, has any American magazine printed anything quite as important . . .")-In particular, the clergy has been strongly represented-the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, for example, having requested 1,700 reprints for distribution to Armed Forces chaplains everywhere...
Chandler, onetime pork-barreling U.S. Senator from Kentucky, had indeed done little as baseball's chief of police except to treat baseball-club presidents to ice-cream sodas to demonstrate what plain, folksy and moral people they all were. He had once summed up his job to a newspaper reporter: "As baseball commissioner I'm compelled to spend the winters in Florida and attend baseball games during the summer. If there is a better job than that, I don't know about it." That was not the way his stern old predecessor Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis regarded...
...women had queued up outside the new bars, but when they got inside, they seemed ill at ease. It was plain that in sedate Toronto, where last week, for the first time in 31 years,* it became legal to drink hard liquor in public, the people had forgotten how it was done...
Johnny O'Clock (Columbia) is another strenuous whodunit in which everyone talks in a monotone, wears an inscrutable expression, indulges in pinwheel fisticuffs and drinks a mort of straight whiskey. It may be that the type has become formalized and will shortly be just plain dull...
...road to religion marked FOR SAINTS ONLY? Is the plain, non-mystical citizen wasting his time working for the wife & kids-instead of sweating out the Dark Night of the Soul in holy poverty...