Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens queued up for their meager fuel rations (see cut). In one instance, the cold brought a negative kind of relief: it halted (temporarily) the expulsion of Germans from Polish-held regions in the east. Perhaps the best example of what the cold wave meant to Europe's plain people was furnished by a refugee from that area, whose case was reported by TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth...
Folk Songs and Ballads (Susan Reed, with zither and Irish harp; Victor, 6 sides). Twenty-year-old Susie's voice is sweet, her diction pure and her zither a little flat. A big attraction in Greenwich Village, her ways may be too sophisticated and stylized for plain folks. Performance: good...
...wrote Conrad Grebel, leader of the earnest little band of Swiss Bible students who later became known as Mennonites. Today their descendants-the plain-dressing, plainspeaking, plain-thinking Mennonites of the U.S. and Canada-are still conscious of Leader Grebel's warning. Last week they were doing their best to get some of their brother sheep to safer pastures...
...Dutch-descended Mennonites came to Quaker William Penn's new colony in America and settled at Germantown. For a time, they found tolerance and peace. By 1776 the Pennsylvania Mennonites numbered nearly 7,500; today there are approximately 200,000 on the North American continent. They too, "plain people" as they call themselves, have not escaped the disease of sectarianism and schism. U.S. Mennonites are currently divided into 16 groups, including the black-clothed, buttonless, bearded Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania. Some of them still practice such ancient customs as the "holy kiss" (see cut). All of them, however, remain...
When he died at 62 (TIME, March 20, 1944), Popularizer Van Loon left this fragment of an autobiography. He began it, he said, partly as a response to letters from servicemen who wanted a plain account of "what this world is all about." Readers may get a few of Van Loon's notions on that subject in the avuncular Van Loon style (history as kiddy talk), but they will learn from this autobiography very little about Van Loon. It appears to have been designed for a leisurely, Montaignesque 700 pages and unfortunately ends just when it begins to warm...