Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain Jacket. The world had learned of his arrival in Australia. From sick Allied hearts, a wave of hope rose. The wave became a flood, a kind of prayerful madness. Army censors in Australia, before announcement of his presence was permitted, admonished those in the know not to speak the name MacArthur aloud, to say he if they must refer to him. Statesmen, the press, plain men everywhere cried that MacArthur would put an end to retreats; MacArthur would take the offensive; MacArthur was the man who could...
...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...
...There was not one point of disagreement but several. It was a very strong disagreement." He said he was going back to "the work I'm happiest in-a tramp newspaper man." With his wife he will head west by automobile, taking plenty of time to chin with plain folks along the way. For his first self-assignment he chose "the biggest story in America today, the story of the revolution that is taking place in American life...
...Jinx" Falkenburg, who was a leader in the 1941 publicity race for the Manhattan glamor stakes and then returned to Hollywood, asked a Los Angeles judge to shorten her name to plain Jinx. She said she figured that having the new name in electric lights instead of the old one would save the nation enough power to produce 26,000 lb. of aluminum. The judge reserved his decision...
...language of the dress business is extravagant, but, even in plain English, genius is the word for Nettie. Her peculiar genius is summed up in her favorite maxim : "It's what you leave off a dress that makes it smart." Luckily for her, this passion for simplicity coincided with the emancipated anti-ruffle trend started by Paris' great Paul Poiret around 1916, the year before Nettie started making clothes for her friends (and their friends) as well as for herself. For four years she did all her work in her brownstone house, but by 1921 so many customers...