Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion I have seen a military officer, in full uniform and commission, a second lieutenant, beaten in the same fashion but without music and formality in the main corridor of the infantry gate of the great historic barracks of army headquarters of Aleppo', Northern Syria, by the direct order and in the personal presence of the Brigadier General, Ahmed Shevkey Pasha...
...evening's sensation was a set of Fantasias by British Henry Purcell whose death in 1695 deprived England of its greatest musical genius. The Purcell pieces played last week were lightly scored but they were so vital and direct, so tender, so craftily sure that the audience behaved as if it had just heard the percussive Bolero or driving Pacific 231. The final Fantasia, an ingenious weaving around a single note, had to be repeated. Then quiet Hans Lange was thanked time & again for reviving such long-neglected music...
...Garden as she made her queenly entrance, shamelessly attempted to seduce the monk Athanael, defiantly exhibited her body. Helen Jepson seemed embarrassed when she dropped her chiffon draperies, although she was absurdly well covered even then. Many of the subtleties of the role escaped her. But in a simple, direct way she succeeded, at least kept the men from lagging at the bar or in the new card room...
...other crack Chrysler executives involved in the conspiracy charges were considered "unreliable witnesses," the letters of one being "thoroughly dishonest." Though Mr. Chrysler "admitted far more than enough" to indicate full knowledge of the deal, he was cleared of any direct part in it. But Sir Cyril shook his bewigged head. "Mr. Chrysler is said to be one of the foremost industrialists in America," he declared. "Some of his answers show that his standard of business morality is lamentably low. . . . The less said about honor in this case the better...
...matter of fact that England is protecting her imperial brood. If direct evidence is not enough, then indirect evidence comes to reinforce the verdict. When Japan had begun its Manchurain adventure, England remained sublimely all of to the many pleas for naval action against the aggressor. Now in parallel circumstances the lordly power takes measures of intimidation and oppression against the new aggressor, and induces a large part of the rest of the world to join in righteous indignation. No explanation other than imperial interest can begin to account for these merry-go-round tactics...