Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain man despite a flair for fancy clothes, Roy Cullen found that he had more money than he knew what to do with. He built himself a big house in Houston's swank River Oaks section, installed indirect lighting and expensive bric-a-brac and landscaped it with costly azalea bushes, each with its own sprinkling system. He provided generously for his four married daughters and gave $10 million to the University of Houston and local hospitals...
...tired after his recent illness, nevertheless made plain that he is not ready to be counted out of politics. "A real change," he said, "will get me in shape for some little time to come-I hope...
Arturo Toscanini, who had made it plain that he wanted no demonstrations, passed his 80th birthday quietly at home as he wished; but the NBC Symphony sneaked in a demonstration anyway. Delivered to his home, and played at dinner: a special recording (the Minuet from Schubert's A Minor Quartet), preceded and followed by recorded congratulations...
...World War I, Adolph's brother George changed his German-sounding name to Ochs Oakes, later changed his sons' names to plain Oakes...
...Allens rarely gad about. One night a week they take in a movie. The other evenings, while Fred works, Portland reads or knits in bed-an old vaudeville custom. They rarely entertain. Allen's best friends are "just plain people"-barbers, shoeshine boys, paper boys, waiters, delicatessen storekeepers. With them, says Comic Henry Morgan, he is "a reluctantly amiable guy." From them, he collects an authentic U.S. idiom...