Word: downrightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Should the Dawes attitude become receptive now, the rift in Republicanism would gape indeed, for subtlety breeds suspicion. Vice President Dawes has exhibited such subtlety in the past that his inheritance of the Lowden support, after all that has been said and denied this year, would be viewed as downright discreditable in both...
...singular negative twist of this statement made people read it again. What upright-downright politician was this, so lacking in illusions, so intellectually honest, that he would publicly admit that the voters might conceivably get along without...
...example, when politicians tell him, for their own purposes, that the tariff discriminates against him, he believes it. Were the politicians honest, they would say that the tariff favors manufacturers, which is very different. But instead of mere jealousy, the farmer has been made to feel that he suffers downright injury from the manufacturers' tariff. Similarly, ever since the Government fixed farm prices as a War measure, the farmer has been told, and he believes, there is no honest reason why the Government should not try to stabilize farm prices permanently. The Federal Reserve Board stabilizes the money market...
...four Senators quickly cleansed their names of the Hearstian smear, in downright statements. Senator Heflin was most agitated. He roared about "scalawags, crooks and scoundrels." In the course of his protestimony he was obliged to tell about receiving money from the Ku Klux Klan for his anti-Roman Catholic orations...
...adjoining column will be found a communication which should be of interest to all such as are worried--if not downright hysterical--about the approaching Reading Period. Coming unsolicited from the head of the College Library, these hints on the use of Widener should, if followed, do their share toward making the first Reading Period a less perilous venture...