Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep us posted on what plain people the world over-people who never get into "the news"-are thinking and talking and arguing about...
...year and more the polls had shown MacArthur to be a likely contender. There could be no doubt that hundreds of thousands of plain people (without much ideology) thought highly of him. But still the figurative chairman of the ail-American town meeting never let him become the topic of free and frank discussion. There was, of course, good reason: most of all, the fact that the General himself was working away at his fighting...
Cyril Forster Garbett (rhymes with carpet) was born (1875) in the little Hampshire parish of Tongham, which served the military camp Queen Victoria had recently established at Aldershot. Garbett's father was vicar. Tongham lies near the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain and the heather-and-fir country of the New Forest. Here, until he was 23, Cyril Garbett lived with his three brothers and one sister (all raised on his father's midget salary). Later Cyril Garbett decided to follow his father, grandfather, and two uncles into the Church of England...
Malvern was revolutionary only in the sense that it recognized the existence of a social revolution. The problem was as plain as hunger. The world over, the masses must be provided with food, clothing, work. To provide these necessities was a duty no Christian might shirk. Not to provide them was an incitement to civil war. For, unlike Bolshevism or Fascism, Malvern's revolution did not glorify the impersonal power politics of the war of classes or the iron economic laws against whose predestined operation there can be only abject, unconditional surrender. Its proper subject was not Political...
...Warner Bros.' pet delusion that Errol Flynn may play the hero, but that he is even more appealing as a heel. This time Cinemactor Flynn is an Occupied-French murderer who is about to be guillotined when some opportune British bombs help him to escape. A dowdy Parisian plain-clothes man (Paul Lukas) recaptures him in a village where saboteurs have just blown up a bridge and the Gestapo is about to shoot 100 hostages in reprisal. Result: one of those ethical problems that bedevil Warner Bros.' pictures: Should the detective turn over his prisoner to the Vichy...