Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...score of the football game may have been 13 to 12, but the Harvard band won an easy victory over the Tiger tooters. The orthographical offering was "Hello Tiger," in big block letters, and the Crimson's musical offerings were far superior, in execution as well as just plain volume, to the Orange and Black efforts. The Princeton had slightly more dapper uniforms, though...
...funny little man in any accent. Eva Le Gallienne, contrasting the prevailing brogue with a gaudy, if inaccurate, French accent, had most of the good lines and used them all for at least five rounds of applause. June Duprez, as the "woman who always knows" is not as plain a wench as Barrie called for, and considerably less crafty. The business of personal appearance seems to impose something of a strain on her, and it might be well for her to return to filmland where she scored admirably in "None But the Lonely Heart" and "And Then There Were None...
...bill for labor's newly won pay increases was totted up for Canadians last week by Price Boss Donald Gordon. A diehard hold-the-liner, Gordon euphemistically called the next stage "a period of orderly price readjustments." In plain words, this meant price rises on items of every kind, to absorb the pay raises...
Leahy's calm abolition of the Rockne shift amounted to heresy at Notre Dame. But one father, plain-talking Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, now Notre Dame's president, came to his aid: "A man is a real success when he knows what God wants him to do and has the discipline to do it." As a T quarterback, Angelo Bertelli was a sensation...
Taking issue with those who consider Lincoln's writing as an innocent or plain homespun talent, Editor Easier argues that it is the work of a conscious literary craftsman. Although he had little formal education, Lincoln studied rhetoric in his spare time, pored over Aesop's Fables and the King James Bible, wrote practice exercises in prose and verse. By the time he had reached 28, Easier declares, he had already acquired the skill "which marks all his later work . . . [although his] taste improves much thereafter, as his literary stature increases...