Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club, Weeks developed an early passion for politics. "When you sit around the breakfast table as a boy and hear politics discussed daily, you are bound to develop an interest," he says. He was elected mayor of Newton in 1929, announced at his inauguration: "I want to make it plain that it is going to be my endeavor to run this city as nearly as possible along business lines." Nosed out for the Republican nomination for Senator by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in 1936, he was appointed by old friend Leverett Saltonstall, then governor, to fill out Lodge...
Durgin said yesterday that two of the missing flags (Delta Upston and yets Dsi) were returned last week. Fratergity men claimed the flags were wrapped to plain paper and left user the Zeta Psl doorway...
...book reaches a high mark in its "performance figures." Speaking of the successful Allard J-2 competition model, Stein says "130 mph is claimed but I wouldn't know." Actually the Allard's performance is 110 mph and accurate test figures on it are available. In many instances the plain lack of research is sloughed off with a remark like "the braking (is) all you could hope to expert." Any accurate comparison of the ears becomes impossible...
According to Ready, the operation in which a bookseller is "warned" works something like this: after a complaint from a group of private citizens has been received by the police, an officer, usually a plain clothes man, will visit the bookstores carrying the supposedly obscene piece. The officer will call the attention of the book-seller to the "lewd" parts in an attempt to discover his intent in selling the book...
...Every icebox," they say, "should have this Universal." They also recommend "the Spirit of '76" (spirits of ammonia), and an international array of pick-me-ups. These usually contain at least one hair of the dog in the form of Pernod, curacao, cognac, absinthe, Fernet Branca, or just plain white wine...