Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speeches, said what he believed, submitted to no pre-speech censorship. He became America First's idol and white knight. Along with Mrs. Lindbergh, he became an intimate of Bob Wood and a frequent guest at the Woods' comfortable lakeside house. Often the General and the Colonel, plain men both, sat up talking until midnight, a late hour for Bob Wood, who habitually leaves parties...
From a corner of the Salisbury Plain in Southwest England where the new Harvard-American Red Cross Hospital is just now beginning to take in its first patients, Gerald F. Houser, instructor in Preventive Medicine at the Medical School, has brought back a report of success in spite of difficulties...
Fortnight ago canny Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, Midwest weathervane, announced he had decided that in time of the plain duty of all Americans is the President...
Vichy held up to the light last week one of the fruits of its collaboration with Germany, announced that Adolf Hitler had released one-fourth of his French war prisoners-500,000 men. It was plain that in choosing those to be freed Hitler had intended: 1) to help France grow strong again for New Order purposes; 2) to rid his prison camps of disabled prisoners who were a nuisance. Those released included medical-corps members, fathers who had four children when mobilized, some farm workers, veterans of World War I, members of families of those who had volunteered...
Gimbels has several big advantages over the auctioneers. It can regularly sell art on credit and on the installment plan. Its tremendous turnover permits lower commissions than the auction galleries. Most important: plain people take to the fixed price tags and businesslike counter displays of department-store art as naturally as they would to a furniture or clothing sale. Said Salesman Hammer...