Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson, who was virtually unknown outside her native state, was billed as a Minnesota farm wife, and photographed beside a rural telephone in kitchen apron and pulled-back hair. The moral was plain: any woman who could milk a cow could make her mark in Democratic politics. But the build-up did not quite fit the facts...
Just after sunrise but before the head of the family left for work, the police would come. There would be two plain-clothes men, with a list of names supplied by the Ministry of the Interior, and a uniformed cop. They would ask for the head of the family (or perhaps a grown son). All they would say in answer to questions was that the man was to come with them and that he should bring warm clothes. Before they left they would take the license and papers of his car, and they would type a sample of his typewriter...
Based on a Broadway misinterpretation of Henry James's Washington Square, the film shows a timid, plain heiress (Olivia de Havilland) courted by a charming idler (Montgomery Clift). Her father (Ralph Richardson), who regards her as a hopelessly unlovable girl, turns her into just that. Using her inheritance as a weapon, he drives off the fortune hunter and blasts her only chance of happiness. The Heiress is something less than the stern and oppressive tragedy James wrote (for one thing, Olivia de Havilland's seductive shyness and warmth make her an unconvincing candidate for spinsterhood), but it still...
...first pieces, the team just seemed to go to pieces for the rest of the game, neglecting teamwork when at midfield and forgetting careful shooting when in the Dartmouth crease. "It wasn't a matter of being outclassed," Coach Bruce Munro said after the game. "We were just plain outscrapped...
Randall declared, inscrutably, "There are certain colleges we're little more skeptical of than others," and both the uniformed men and the plain-clothes operatives have been warned to watch out for them...