Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentlemen, it is either-or. Either you agree that a criminal should have this right ... or you vote for this sound and basic principle of enduring justice and plain common sense...
...Plain-spoken Liam O'Flaherty (The Informer, The Puritan) arrived in Paris to do some writing and maybe make a movie. Asked a curious interviewer: Is there an Irish cinema? Answered O'Flaherty: "How can there be? All of my works are banned in Ireland...
...winding alleys-Street of the Union, Street of the Clock-were lit at night, white and black, by the polished moon of Castile and by gas jets, weak flames shaped like slices of melon. In summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete on the baked plain, where young men crucified bats whose wings tore as easily as old rags. He saw a starved boy in the ragged tinsel of a matador waiting, with the face of a mystic, for a bull's charge in a drunkenly howling village square...
...indeed," was as suspect as an Ephraimite. Dresden's cops had forbidden under threat of fine the use of Jawohl as a typically Nazi version of Yes. Germans untainted with Naziism, said the authorities, should content themselves with the plain, unvarnished...
Last week, in an office in the gloomy Chamber of Deputies, aged (74), ailing Premier Leon Blum ruminated wearily over a light dinner of mushroom omelet, plain lettuce salad and toast, then confided in a tired whisper: "An omelet is easier to make than a Cabinet . . . things are more complicated than I thought...