Word: direction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked as a hand when a boy. Before returning to Washington, he went out to look over his new crops (69 acres corn, 32 acres oats, ten acres soy beans). Said he: "Farmers have for the first time in history become conscious of their relationship to the Government through direct contact with it and help from...
Your magazine, from its first issue, has been my Galahad-yes, that's mighty sticky, but leave me what's left of my girlish romanticism. Your articles have been fair, direct and intensely interesting, and now you, my Galahad, that I have cheered on in your quest for truth, have (oh, boor that you really are) spit in the Holy Grail. That tacky, smart-alecky corruption of the King and Queen's visit! Bad, bad taste...
...given by Raymond Orteig who died last week-see p. 55), many another source, Lindbergh sees before him the friendly prospect of a normal life in his own country, but between it and him lies the high fence of misunderstanding. To his old friends he is almost unchanged, still direct, cheerful, frank, a little more mature and self-possessed. To the U. S. public before which he cannot appear without growing gawky, from which he instinctively shrinks, he is still the enigmatic hero...
...latest work, a three-ton figure in pink alabaster entitled Adam, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. In general mass and demeanor Adam resembled an unusually upright gorilla with his fists at his chest and his face lifted manlike toward the stars. The conception was obvious and the execution direct...
...recently established fellowship for the study of modern art will be of little or no direct benefit to undergraduates...