Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from land to water will go down the ways into the River Clyde near Glasgow. On hand for the most elaborate launching of an ocean liner, known to the world only as No. 534, will be King, Queen, peers, knights, tycoons, workmen and thousands upon thousands of plain British subjects, all fairly bursting with pride at this achievement of empire...
Last week irrepressible Publisher "Johnny" Farrar announced Ruth Suckow's The Folks as ''a great American novel." His pride was pardonable, if a little exaggerated. A better book than Main Street, The Folks comes as near the indefinable quality of greatness as an honest story about plain people ever can. Most of its readers will feel that "great" should be applied only to a deeper or a higher theme than Author Suckow's, but few will deny the real worth of this solid masterpiece. Coming too late to start a school, The Folks has certainly finished...
Between Poet Robinson and Poets Spender and Auden lies the gulf of the War. Much murmured of late by the literati, these two new names were last fortnight introduced to a U. S. audience. Tories in their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...
...incongruous form to the ordinary living of life-to write . . . poetry with its feet on the ground. . . . I have tried to show things as they are, but to show more also: the underground part of life that is unseen, and the richness which, though visible, is not noticed." Plain readers may find the ground a little flat, the poetry a little uncertain of its feet, but they will give Author Johnson high marks for an ambitious effort. More cynical critics will rate Now in November as big talk, too precocious to be profound...
...depressing subject to most clothing men. The usual junk, they expect. Any kind of pants and coat, no garters, few hats. For the correctly dressed student, if any, Brooks Brothers, Rogers Peet, and others, show brown slacks and gray coats, or vice versa. Nor are the slacks plain, by any means--brown herringbones, for instance, with a gray coat having a large green plaid and bellows pockets. White shoes, brown hat with black band...