Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the discussions of the strike going on this week at the captive-coal mines sound like plain prejudiced shouting. Men who shudder at the very mention of the word "union" dismiss the side of the workers without a thought of the rights of the union shop. Men who get the same reaction to the word "management" refuse to consider the side of the steel companies. Defense addicts accuse the strikers of disloyalty. Isolationists claim the government measures are the opening wedge of fascism...
...people, going to a Symphony concert is a plain and simple evil, and not even a necessary one--like sending birthday presents to great-aunts. But more than a few Harvard jitter-bugs and Totem Pole devotees have echoed the words of one Freshman who, on returning home after his first year at college, was asked what he'd grained culturally during the year...
...plenipotentiaries have had trouble with sartorial protocol since the days of Benjamin Franklin. When Minister Franklin appeared before the King of France in plain brown velvet knee breeches he was called uncouth. When Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes refused to expose his shanks to the Court of St. James's in knee breeches he stirred comment. When Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy showed up at the same court in a tail coat, someone said he looked like "one of the less important waiters...
...Hohman: "I think that's just plain "bunk. Any woman who can afford $15 a week for a nurse will gladly turn over her kids to one." (Boos, hisses...
...last week, it had become pretty plain that snobbery was not the word. The Government likewise puzzled over "The Strangers," particularly, it seemed, over the Commentator-Herald master mailing list, now said to comprise 500,000 names. Most of its names were supposedly supplied by isolationist Congressmen Wheeler, Nye, Fish, by Lindbergh and Father Coughlin, by America First and "other organizations." After big isolationist meetings the speakers are reported to have baled up tens of thousands of fan letters and sent them along to Scribner's Commentator and The Herald. There is nothing suspicious in having a mailing list...