Word: plainspoken
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...Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...
...pillared cupola flanked by great trees, its tolling tower bell pacing life in the town. In the gallery of lawyers serving beneath the bell, the outstanding figure is Noah Tuttle, Winner's senior partner, a doughty old lion of the law in his white-maned 80s, crotchety, plainspoken, a portable archive of torts, statutes and the cumulative wisdom...
National Grange (of the Patrons of Husbandry), Washington, D.C. Patriarch of U.S. farm organizations, counting 875,000 members in 37 states, concentrated in the Northeast (Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Maine) with large outcroppings in the Pacific Northwest. Master: plainspoken, Indiana-born Herschel D. Newsom, 51. Founded in 1867 as a fraternal lodge for farm families, the Grange still holds to some of its secret rituals, goes in less than the other farm organizations for lobbying. It supported this year's farm bill, but generally stands somewhere between the Farm Bureau and the Farmers Union, favors a commodity...
...Court (1930-45) who gained a reputation as the court's "swing man" by voting independently of either liberal or conservative factions in the pre-Roosevelt court, later shifted to a more conservative position under the New Deal; of a heart attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration...
...preached to noon-hour crowds in the downtown financial district, become known as "The Bishop of Wall Street." Now he became "Dad" Hall, the telephone preacher, and as word of his number spread, he got dozens of calls a day. Each caller heard a plainspoken talk on Christian verities...