Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter...
...Mexico City, the Government press bureau announced that Mexicans may now telegraph complaints direct to President Lázaro Cárdenas, free of charge...
...reporter, wrote from the inside, that most of the leading political and literary figures of the day-the Duke of Wellington, Palmerston, Peel, the Princess de Lieven, Macaulay-were his friends. His scandals -such as the lustful Duke of Cumberland's attack on Lady Lyndhurst-are those with direct political repercussions...
When ointment containing male sex hormones is rubbed into the comb of a capon, the listless, bedraggled cock gradually turns into a lusty, strutting rooster. Reason; the hormones are absorbed into his bloodstream. When Dr. George L. Foss of the Royal Infirmary at Bristol, England learned that this direct application of hormones to a capon's comb is 200 times more effective than injections, he decided last summer to try it on impotent...
...soon be dashed. But a reader who approaches these poems as literal communications may at length understand them. Readers, says Laura Riding, are accustomed to the kind of poetry written in what she calls "a tradition of male monologue." Laura Riding's poems are no monologues: they are direct communications of personal knowledge from herself to the reader. These poems make such unfaltering sense that most readers' attention will falter before them...