Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Royal Manners Sir: Your March 16 picture of Queen Elizabeth II removing her own wrap was disgusting . . . You called it "a moment of royal informality"; I call it plain old bad manners. Let's hope the American male doesn't take stock in this incident. They are already prone to be lax . . . As for the Duke of Edinburgh, I'm sure he must know better. SALLY HAWKINS Los Angeles...
...20th century, however, it was plain to see that Throne and Altar had its drawbacks. Sheltered by the umbrella of the Supreme Bishop's authority and supported by state funds,, the official Lutheran Church often became a state bureaucracy and bore little active Christian witness in the life outside the church doors...
...news that Britain-for 200 years "ruler of the waves"-was now a third-rate naval power sent M.P.s racing to the downstairs bar for a bracer. The Daily Express said it was "chilled and startled," but the facts were plain...
...Brassuer is largely expression of hands, mouth, eyes and the intonations of voice; and the earthy beauty of Arletty defies description. It is Arletty, and my changing impressions of her throughout the movie, that I remember most vividly. For the first time in my experience, an actress who seemed plain at the beginning became more and more beautiful as the story wove its way to an ending, until I found myself not consciously seeing her physically but very much aware of her loveliness and the simple beauty of the character created by author Jacques Prevert. It was the same sensation...
...days we'd send him to an analyst." Like one of his prototypes,* Matt is not all sweetness & light. The girl in the series, Kitty, is "just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while," says Macdonnell. "We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple...