Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain & Dowdy...
TIME, May 31, reported on the International Rotary Convention at Rio. Enclosed please find photo of two of the many plain and dowdy women about whom you reported. Most all Rotarians traveled to Rio by boat. Could it be possible that your reporter missed the boat...
...daily sweep up, pick up and otherwise put out of sight about 5,000 cubic yards of stuff ranging from dead cats to a load of TNT, and including wallets, personal mail, laundry bundles and an occasional keg of beer, as well as the more routine paper and just plain dirt (an average 112 tons of soot cover a square mile of the city each month...
Truman-and his White House staff-had left their despair out West. The President was sure that his campaign strategy was now well set. Its theme: the Plain People's President Against the Privileged People's Congress. He had practiced the punch lines all the way back from California and, on audience reaction, he thought they were surefire. He denounced the "rich man's tax bill"; he bedeviled "the special-interests boys"; he warned of "special privilege against the interests of the people as a whole...
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A wag once tried to describe this fustian piece: "It is he, the Hero, and he has been drinking again. He is in E flat, and his cuffs are soiled by numerous dissonances . . . Four plain-clothes detectives come in on a sharp glissando, and, seizing the Hero, throw over his head a dark-tasting chord . . ." Performance: good. Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Some of the pleasantest music Richard Strauss ever wrote, pleasingly played. Recordings: good...