Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...column called Words to Live By appears each week in This Week. Authors, philosophers, statesmen, educators and plain citizens choose and comment on quotations, famous or obscure, as a steering gear for readers in "these rudderless days." For No. 22 in the series, Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, president of St. John's College, last week plucked a 2,000-year-old thought from Aristotle: "All men desire by nature to know." Wrote Barr...
Died. Edwin Meade ("Ted") Robinson, 67, literary critic, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist since 1910; of a heart attack; in Provincetown, Mass...
...Having recently completed a legal code for the Chinese Central Government, Professor Pound returned to this country and dropped minor words of wisdom that cannot be considered imbecilic, but can certainly be tossed in with the "inside dope" brought back by scores of junketing Congressmen, visiting firemen, and just plain tourists...
...Trevor Howard, described Howard as being "just middle-aged once," are small, quiet, English bourgeoisie who are thrown, by chance, into a tragedy of love from which they will never emerge. Miss Johnson, as a housewife, is forty and looks it. She is not pretty. Her clothes are plain and her hair shows the results of innumerable "permanents" at a local beauty-parlor. Trevor Howard is a doctor, slightly bald, whose suits are unpressed and whose practice is completely unromantic. Both are married, and each has had two children by other plain people. They meet in the railroad station...
...take on the aspect of the Times Square station at 5 p.m., and perspiring salesmen descend from their stacks in many cases only to tell their perspiring customers that a book is (1) sold out, (2) out-or-print, (3) on order, or (4) just plain, ordinary, everyday unobtainable