Word: bluntspoken
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...When bluntspoken, disheveled Carioca* Villa-Lobos went to Paris in 1923, he did not go to get polished. "I didn't come here to study," blurted he. "I came to show you what I have done." When he had finished showing them his blunt, smoldering music (much of it written for Brazilian tom-toms and gourd rattles), the Parisians decided he was a sort of musical William Saroyan. His Paris apartment became a rendezvous for admiring Left-Bankers. Villa-Lobos, who couldn't afford to keep open house, threw them out, told them not to come back unless...
...Century Flemish painting ever held in the U. S. Jointly responsible for it were the Worcester Museum's affable, oval Director Francis Henry Taylor and Assistant Director Henri Marceau of the Philadelphia Museum. They succeeded last summer in getting the help of Léo van Puyvelde, distinguished, bluntspoken* director of the Royal Museums of Belgium, who accompanied the show to Worcester...
...idle threat against Congressman McFadden was Mrs. Pinchot's candidacy. Great-granddaughter of the late great Peter Cooper, Manhattan philanthropist and manufacturer of the first U. S. steam locomotive,* daughter of the late Congressman, editor and diplomat, Lloyd Stephens Bryce, auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot is a consummate politician. Bluntspoken, quick-witted, shrewd, she is quite the peer of her husband on the stump. Outdoorish in her interests, she has landscaped the Pinchot estate, holds a permit to carry a gun (kidnapping threats have been made against her only son, Gifford Jr., 16), goes exploring in khaki shorts...