Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great delight in government may be a bad thing for the postwar U.S., as the National Association of Manufacturers has been charging (in advertisements prepared by Benton & Bowles, the firm which Bowles helped found). It may be a good thing, as a vast majority of the nation's plain people believe. At all events, it must be reckoned with...
...that looks like-hair." Said daughter Sarah of father Winston's tastes in women's wear: "Oh, he takes violent likes and dislikes to things." Mrs. Churchill-in a blue-&-white dress, her white hair bound in a brightly flowered kerchief-elaborated authoritatively: "He really prefers just plain black or white...
This week Tom Benton showed up in Chicago again-with a one-man exhibition which he described as a "plain bid for Chicago's approval." The country boy had not grown much bigger with the years, but he was twice as cocky...
Dean Blanding is a tall, gaunt, plain-drawling person who has come a long way from the small farm she was born on near Lexington, Ky. In her early teens, she got $10 a month for yanking on the bell ropes of the local Episcopal church. She often rode with her uncle, a horse-&-buggy doctor, as he made his rounds, and her earliest ambition was to be a doctor herself. But she settled to a more modest ambition when her father died while she was in high school; she borrowed money and enrolled at the New Haven, Conn. Normal...
...Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three for my own wife at three months. Just a plain old-fashioned buttonhook...