Word: downrightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called it) to President Lewis Eugene Pierson of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He told Mr. Pierson, who is a banker, that he was surprised by the Chamber's "misconception of facts"; by its "generalizations" about the surplus, which it had no accurate means of estimating; by downright errors in its figures. "Such carelessness," said Secretary Mellon, "is perhaps excusable in a general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck...
...flabby man, he looks for all the world like an overdressed butcher or a well-to-do farmer, an oversized mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched his life...
...blind surrender to faith. Whether the Americans are one step ahead or behind remains where all decisions of this kind have remained--with the individual. At least Mr. Croy avoids dogmatism in his own code, a novelty in a day when inventors and manufacturers are become the most downright of theologians...
...Smoking, among men atleast, depends for its existence upon its sociability; if it were considered proper to smoke only in absolute privacy the habit would soon disappear. Nor is the masculine smoking room usually a place of retreat from the world: it is usually one of hospitality, if not downright conviviality. To an old story, however, it will now be necessary to make an addition. The Princeton man lights first your cigarette and then his; the Yale man lights first his and then yours: the Harvard man lights his own and throws the match away: and the Vassar senior goes...
Foreign-born Canadian commuters said that the ruling was downright exclusion. They could not get the necessary visas from their native countries if the immigration quotas from those countries were filled. They pictured themselves and their families destitute. Through officials they appealed to Premier W. L. MacKenzie King of Canada. Thus came to Vincent L. Massey, Canada's first minister to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 22), his first truly knotty assignment in Canadian-U. S. relations. The handiest solution that he might urge would be to have foreign-born Canadian commuters classed specially as nonquota immigrants, a distinction...