Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impression on Austrians than on any other people in Europe, the Gemütlichkeit was riddled by flashes of bitterness. Usually broadminded, the Viennese grew jealous, called girls who fraternized with the chocolate-bearing G.I.s "chocoladies." The sprinkling (5%) of combat veterans among U.S. troops called the Austrians just plain Krauts, only softer...
...Plain Portuguese obviously are not buying the luxury goods in the shops. The incidence of tuberculosis, venereal disease and insanity is high, and there is an acute shortage of doctors & nurses. In one month last year, 5,800 new mental cases needing hospital treatment were reported, of whom only 1,118 were treated...
...world's top authorities on the New Testament is a plain-speaking pipe-smoking Presbyterian minister named Ernest Findlay Scott. For most of his 78 years, English-born Dr. Scott has been writing about Christianity and teaching it. For 19 years he was at Union Theological Seminary, where former colleagues still recall his shyness, forceful lectures...
...idea that this is just plain Burlesque. There's something of a story. It's to do with a second-rate comedian who goes big-time, loses his wife to a Wyoming eattleman, and comes back in the end to win wife, happiness and a half-pound of chopped sirloin. Lahr, naturally the comic, works his audience to the last laugh and even in the "sad" scenes manages to turn in a rather convincing performance. His boisterous presence, his remarkable stage direction of the entire cast and his perfect timing, are testimony to his years in the trade. His voice...
...puzzled Gorky greatly. "I could never believe that he was an atheist," he wrote Chekhov, "although I felt it, but now . . . I know that he is indeed an atheist and a confirmed one. Am I right?" Gorky, godless himself, was hardly right, but in many respects he saw Tolstoy plain-his "misty preaching" rising from "the unhealthy ferment of the old Russian blood," the man himself "madly and tormentingly beautiful . . . a man of the whole of mankind...