Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a plain U. S. citizen, DC-4's name is as mysterious as the plane itself, but most of the crowd at the airfield will know that DC-4 means simply "Douglas Commercial Airplane...
...forthright plain speaking of William Allen White, gusty old editor and owner of the Emporia, Kans. Gazette, has long since made him the best-known and most respected small-town newspaperman in the U. S. Three weeks ago 70-year-old Editor White was elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, thus becoming a more or less official spokesman for U. S. journalism. Last week, on his way home, Bill White showed that this new honor had not changed his old habit. Addressing the students at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce...
Unlike U. S. book reviewers, who rarely write novels, British book reviewers turn novelists almost as naturally as cocoons turn into moths. While this metamorphosis seldom produces a first-rate novel, it does produce, from plain readers' viewpoint, a pleasing bulk of readable fiction. With their ears continually close to readers' hearts, no one learns better than book reviewers that the warmest heart beats are stimulated by a readable story, lively plot, colorful atmosphere, easy prose, a minimum of literary pioneering. Thus informed, British reviewers, with a better average than most, turn out best-sellers as expertly...
Latest British reviewer to burst into best-selling mothhood is Howard Spring of the London Evening Standard, whose "Book of the Month" choice is a lively competitor of the organized book clubs. With publication last month of My Son, My Son!, plain English readers were pleased as they had not been since J. B. Priestley unfolded from his cocoon. My Son, My Son! is a sad story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike...
...know the ancient languages, would receive no harm if a course were given with reading in English translation, although this certainly would be a blow to the dignity of moribund classicism. Yet this might in the end be beneficial. It would make the present low state of the classics plain even to those who occupy commanding positions in its Ivory Tower, and by dispelling false pride based on illusions of grandeur, stimulate them to new thought on how best to use the unquestionable values that are still in the Classics...