Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Which Is It? The President's message was Page One news and good fodder for editorial writers and plain citizens. Some saw it as a wise and forward-looking extension of the New Deal. Others took no sides, but thought the plan deserved thorough study. Still others, sick & tired of having government do things for folks that they might be doing for themselves, took a dim view of Harry Truman's adventure...
...Harz Mountains last September, she was 78, worn out, and nearly blind. But her prints and drawings still stood as a terrible and pitiful description of human suffering. In the '205 they had seemed, to U.S. eyes, grotesquely exaggerated; the pictures of Belsen now made them seem like plain, eyewitness reporting...
Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers, Inc., never one to be modest about its wares, last week overdid it. Said Gimbels, in full-page newspaper ads : "Plain down-to-earth Gimbels flies out with the best buy in the sky! Gimbels has Taylorcrafts [airplanes...
...Greenwich Village apartment, he is often joined by his sister, Bess Lomax Hawes, who has handled the music for OWI's overseas broadcasts. By last week the Library of Congress had employed four clerks to handle 30,000 inquiries about his records. He describes the albums as: "Plain and unadulterated folk song, usually about death, sweat, hard work, love. No fancy-pants stuff like Oklahoma!. Miserable people make the most exciting music I ever heard." When he gets out of the Army he hopes to take American folk songs to Russia, bring back Soviet ballads. The Russians, he says...
...mirror to a recognizable U.S. life. The late Clare Briggs's Mr. and Mrs., as an appreciation of marriage, made books like Cass Timberlane .look as naive as Daisy Ashford. Harry J. Tuthill's remarkable Bungle Family, almost alone among comics, dared to gaze steadily at the plain, awful ugliness and clumsiness to which the domesticated human animal is liable. When you have counted these -and Frank King's mild, wholesome Gasoline Alley, Chic Young's Blondie, J. R. Williams' homely cowhands and mechan ics in Out Our Way, and Gluyas Williams' middle-aged...