Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Switzerland is the only country in Europe where you can see a poor plain citizen siting in his humble home oiling and cleaning his army rifle. The Swiss are the only people in Europe who have been free for more than 700 years, and the only ones who will stay free...
...disease is hereditary. Plain overeating does not bring it on unless the glands are frail to begin with. Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst. In the advanced stages, the blood is heavily laden with sugar, pus germs flourish, fat metabolism goes awry, and a victim's body is flooded with poisonous waste products...
...classes of Greenwich Village's pioneering Little Red School House. Chosen for outstanding talent from New York's public and parochial schools, these children were sons and daughters of taxi drivers, shoemakers, waiters, ranged in race and nationality from Chinese, Polish and Syrian to Harlem Negro and plain U.S. Anglo-Saxon. Their pictures crawled and bubbled with youthful gusto. They also showed a keen sense of observation, and the painstaking craftsmanship that results from purposeful intention rather than youthful accident...
...Look Homeward, Angel) is a short, beautifully disciplined work, in a style of which Wolfe is popularly supposed to have been incapable. Chickamauga, which Wolfe slicked up unnaturally in the vain hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages...
...addition to the scene near the Union hangs in plain sight of all Varsity football players as they go to the Varsity Club for their meals and will be used to help put over the rally scheduled for 7 o'clock tomorrow night...