Word: plainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when reports from Warsaw made it plain that the Polish Government did not feel bound by these conditions, Washington was not naively bewildered, as it would have been six months ago. "Byrnes is primed for that one," said a State Department official. "The Poles won't get a penny." As Warsaw denied the charges, the U.S. suspended the loan, pending further investigation. Warsaw papers the next day failed to publish news of the suspension...
...dollar diplomacy" (dollars for diplomatic ends, rather than diplomacy for dollars) meant that different nations would need different treatment. The world (which could not be bought) could be convinced that democracy was still a vital force, able to tackle the galling problems of the world's plain people. Dollars were not a bribe or a club. But they were an argument...
...Briand's day, the economic argument for European federation was one of the strongest; since then its cogency had increased. Seventeen years ago economists knew that the European level of life was held down by the division of Europe into tiny fractions. In 1946, plain men everywhere knew it. Unless the standard of life in Europe rose, European civilization would not be possible. Anyone who doubted that could look at Europe's diet statistics, or, better, at such typically present-day European scenes as took place daily in Italy. As U.S. Army trucks carry garbage to dumps, Italians...
Philip Neri, whose delight it was "to play the fool for the love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...
...Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers at Grangegor-man. He himself had been born with weak eyes, and contracted "a tubercular swelling" on his neck. With his "tattered clothes and broken boots," he looked like "a ragamuffin . . . a shuddering sight for Gaelic gods...