Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak this evening to all of you, I am here to get across the plain, incontrovertible facts in such terms that even your facile, plasticene minds cannot mistake them. Your faculty are nothing but puppets, and you, fools, you are like the little boys in the streets who pay in the hard earned nickels at the gilt ticket-window, to gape at the sham wonders put before you in the guise of truth...
...from what the average supporter has seen of Harvard football teams he knows that on every squad there are men who understand how to win. Form may be an excellent thing but the layman has a habit of discounting it after the first three miles in favor of plain guts, and though it is not always easy to see clearly or think distinctly at New London one thing simple to grasp would be a Harvard crew crossing the finish first. There are many kinds of systems. Some are too new, others too old. There is too little of some...
Elbert H. Baker, publisher of The Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...JERSEY: Governor Silzer is a lone Democrat faced by a Legislature of Republicans. He is called the "veto-governor" because of the large number of bills which he vetoed during the last session of the Legislature. Now a collection of his vetoes has been published. They are marked by plain speaking and a clear legal mind, and Democrats claim that, although 27 bills became law despite his objection, this collection of vetoes shows that he won a " moral victory...
...Arboretum on its hundred and forty acres has shrubs in number and variety sufficient to feed an army of the most epicurean locusts, and grows herbs to satisfy the meanest grub. At Jamaica Plain and in the Forest at Petersham are grown and studied all varieties of North American plants and trees; the Arboretum's annual "lilac week", which is nearly due, brings visitors from all distances; and the display of azaleas and rhododendrons which follows is equally notable...