Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman prepared to lay the whole problem of foreign relations before the U.S. people this week in a speech at Waco, Tex. The winds of history were blowing up. Not even the most economy-minded Congressman or the most isolationist plain citizen could escape their breath...
...long life, Martha Ellen Truman had learned to accept trouble. She could remember the guerrilla fighting which raged on the Kansas-Missouri border during the Civil War, and the day when Federal irregulars killed her family's stock and burned haystacks and barns. She had lived by the plain philosophy which she had passed on to her sons-do your best, be loyal to your friends, never forget your enemies. She saw no reason for "a lot of fuss & feathers...
...promoter, as a gag, had put the wrestler and the lady golfer in a threesome with a minister. After they were married, they kept on golfing together. On the fourth tee at Brentwood one day, the Babe hit a terrific drive down the fairway. Then George, just a plain country golfer, went through some of the contortions of his trade-flying mare, airplane spin, body-twist-and hit the ball about three yards farther than the Babe. Said Babe: "I always said I could fall in love with a man strong enough to outdrive...
There is also the magnificent Anna Magnani (pronounced mon-yon-ee), who is soon, for better or worse, to come to Hollywood. Signora Magnani's style of beauty is not quite standard Hollywood; when she appeared in Open City, the reviewer for Variety described her as plain. Her acting style, too, is Mediterranean in its richness. But in her own vivid way-and in her knowledge of how to project her personality on the screen (this is only her second movie)-she is one of the most impressive women since Garbo. Lacking Garbo's peculiar, dreamlike power...
...Kissel of the Columbus Citizen disputed: "A competent cast that never muffed a line nor missed a cue wasted their talents on an unimportant play." But Mary McGavran of the Ohio State Journal called the play "beautiful in its very ugliness." And William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: "A harsh, powerful play ... It contains some of the best and most touching writing of the greatest American playwright...