Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet officialdom decided to make it plain that good upright Communist bipeds would not be caught cavorting about on all fours. In Izvestia, Party Polemicist Boris Lavrenev reported that a look at Antipin's family tree revealed a wretched bourgeois background. The professor had fought the Red army as a member of Admiral Kolchak's White Guard in 1919. Obviously, Lavrenev concluded, Antipin was nothing but "a common adventurer, slavishly addicted to idiotic . . . ravings...
...Around Plain, Ben's pony, munching grass, was a set of Calumet horses with the exercise boys still in the saddles. It is one of Ben's tricks to let his horses settle down and get a bellyful of grass as soon as they come back from a morning's gallop. He feels that it helps horses get the idea that work and play are practically the same thing. Such basic ideas, plus patience and instinctive horse sense, have made him famous wherever horses are raced...
Also an innovation was the splitting of the Council budget, last year $10,000, into its components of charities and plain administrative expenses. The Council supported charities, which include Phillips Brooks House, Council scholarships, Displaced Persons Drive, and a contribution to the Salzburg Seminar, will now appear at the head of a list of "Charities of special interest to students...
...percent levy, if paid, will only take care of the estimated $4472 plain administrative expenses, such as secretarial and National Students Association...
...thought one of the prerequisites of a Naval officer was that he be an officer and gentleman. The Captain is a good example of the "snobs" that are turned out at Annapolis to live in luxury at the expense of just plain people like Mrs. Clauson...