Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tacked onto these and other Gothic edifices are several buildings in Colonial style, an incongruity heightened in the courtyard of one particular College which is half Colonial and half Gothic. And one finds, too, in the midst of the University buildings, a plain red-brick New Haven high school, from whence sprung Levi Jackson...
...display. . . . The multitudes of gaudy uniforms . . . soldiers with red tassels dangling from their overseas caps; the snappy, booted, armed police, with their short clubs strapped to their belts; the civil guard, in their odd tricorn hats; the municipal police in blue, the special border police in green . . . poker-faced plain-clothes men flashing their badges and demanding identification papers...
...week's end it was plain that the Guild was bucking a hardened (or at least a fed-up) Stern. Record and Courier-Post executives rolled up their sleeves, got out the papers themselves...
...husbands' careers remains a sort of unfading matinee attraction. It is cleverly "human" without being even slightly real. Its little golden nugget of truth is heavily coated with all the familiar Barrie chemicals-romantic fancy, sentimental charm, playful humor, terrifying coyness and thick Scotch burr. And in creating plain Maggie Shand, whose wit and wisdom were the making of her priggish husband's fortune, Barrie was practicing all Maggie's guile on the opposite...
...plain country meetinghouses, Quaker farmers and their families still worshiped according to the precepts of their 17th Century English founder George Fox, waiting in "living silence" for the Inner Light to quicken in them direct awareness of God's will. They felt no need of dogmas, ritual, or "hired priests." They studied their Bibles for spiritual inspiration rather than as final, unchangeable authority as to the nature and will...