Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, the Grand Vizier of the Kirkland House Entertainment Committee might have been trying to inveigle someone into looking at his coy little notices on the bulletin board, but nevertheless there is an amusing contradiction right there in plain sight...
When Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas appeared last year, readers discovered to their surprise that Author Stein could write plain, understandable English. When she landed in the U.S. last month for her first visit in 31 years, newshawks and newsreel audiences were further chagrined at her shrewd and sensible remarks (TIME, Nov. 5). Even listeners at her strictly limited lectures understood more than half of what she said. But the publication of Portraits and Prayers made it plain that in the Autobiography, in her public appearances. Author Stein had merely been showing off. When...
...Spanish holiday, written in his familiar brow-wrinkled style, as if he had puffed it thoughtfully out of an old pipe stuffed with a shaggy mixture of Lamb, Stevenson and Conrad. A journalist to littérateurs, a littérateur to journalists, Author Tomlinson is pleasant company for plain readers who like to browse quietly by the side of the road...
...substance of Through Space and Time was delivered last winter as a course of lectures before the Royal Institution, which invites its annual speakers to discourse "in a style adapted to a juvenile auditory." Sir James took for granted almost no qualifications of his audience beyond ability to understand plain English. Highlights of the indisputable universe as presented by Evangel Jeans...
Though shrewd Publishers Simon & Schuster announce it as their "sincere belief" that no such personal and intimate autobiography has been written since Rousseau's Confessions, many a plain reader will feel that Powys has dodged the point. His text is excellent: "If all the persons who wrote autobiographies would dare to put down the things that in their life have actually caused them their most intense misery, it would be a much greater boon than all these testy justifications of public actions." But, like many a sermon, Author Powys' is more exhibitionistic than instructive, and it goes...