Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plain man, neither snobbish nor proud, and content to be so. As such I thank you for publishing the letter [TIME, May 23] in which Mr. Herbert Milton Maxwell so cogently points out that since the President of Mexico has a private train costing ?375,000 our own President should not go about as might a "drummer" or "traveling salesman...
What are "fancy spellings" in your opinion? Is plain, correct spelling to be considered "fancy"? Why did you sit Reader Gibbon down so hard [TIME...
...imbecile or an ignoramus who hated professors. The second formed the prelude to a portion of the speech in which II Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...
...delegates of other nations shied at this admission, believing that the Russians would use it in some way as propaganda. Chairman Henry Mauris Robinson of the U. S. Delegation took the position, however, that it would be ridiculous to refuse the Russians insertion of a simple statement of facts plain to anyone?namely that there are two main economic systems: Capitalism and Communism...
...Should booksellers fail, the facilities of TIME's book department are at its readers' disposal to enlarge upon or order the above, or any other, books. Inclose cash or a check to the Book Editor, TIME the Newsmagazine, Penton Building, Cleveland, making plain to whom you wish your purchases sent. Postage extra...