Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the evolution of ordinary street hockey, the inevitable introduction of plain speed racing, and a dubious form of amusement in which the participants dance while on roller skates, there didn't seem to be much left for people to do on wheels. All this failed to daunt one Lee A. Seltzer, an athletic-minded Chicagoan who figured that the millions of Americans who roller skate and the millions of Americans who wrestle ought to be thrown together in one merry mob. The Roller Derby originated in Chicago...
...Army supplied only a plain blanket for the presidential lap (instead of the electric blanket furnished by the Navy last year), and the electric foot warmer did not work. But Harry Truman cheerfully hammed a few appropriate poses for photographers, oohed and aahed like any common citizen at the power of Army's football team (see SPORT). "I enjoyed it but it was a little one-sided," commented old artilleryman Truman before he left for home...
...Some Europeans have professed not to know what the U.S. means by integration; others suggest that the U.S. itself does not know what it means. In recent weeks, ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, integration's foremost prophet and promoter, as well as other EGA officials, has made its meaning perfectly plain...
Back in Underclothes. Prices are high: businessmen keep asking high prices for their goods, in an attempt to get the capital which they cannot borrow. A plain laborer earning no marks a month spends most of his wages on food; a cheap suit will cost him two months' pay, shoes more than a week's. "Stuttering," as the Germans call installment-plan buying, is in high vogue. Crack the stutterers: "Any honest man has debts today...
Apart from Herrin and the Sins, the most ambitious picture in the show was a summer landscape seething with happy nudes and entitled What I Believe. The painting did not make Cadmus' belief plain (unless he had meant to plump for nudism and close quarters), but it did at least indicate, said Cadmus, "that I don't really hate people...