Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plain Headache...
...finally shut it off," he said afterwards, "because I didn't want to get the blame for it. If you ask me, the thing is always breaking down. "It's a plain headache." Weiss is a research assistant at the cyclotron laboratory and a graduate student in nuclear physics...
...action takes place, some time around the '20s, on a western farm during a drought. The play starts off, like Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, with the efforts of a plain girl's father and brothers to find her a husband. Lizzie is all the wrong things-uncoy, intelligent, blunt; failure unnerves her; and she is bleakly staring spinsterhood in the face when a posturing, flamboyant young con man (Darren McGavin) blusters in, swearing that for $100 he can bring rain. With the money in his jeans, he spouts philosophy, poetizes, woos the girl, teaches...
Died. Herbert Gorman, 61, prolific historical romancer (The Mountain and the Plain, The Cry of Dolores), poet, newspaper critic and biographer of James Joyce; after long illness; in Hughsonville...
...name terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just for good clean fun and loud laughter, and that neither money nor sex ever appealed to her. After...