Word: downrightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponents. His 20 years of service in the House, culminating in his leadership in that body, his nine years in the Senate have won him a large place even in Republican eyes. Not so brilliant as Harrison, nor so brilliant as Heflin, not so witty as Caraway, nor so downright as Robinson, his prestige is as great as that of any of them. Muscle Shoals lies in his own state. Heflin, also from Alabama, has done an almost endless amount of talking about it. Underwood sent out to find a practical settlement...
When the Yellow Cab and Yellow Manufacturing stocks were brought on to Manhattan and listed on the Manhattan exchanges, many expected to see a further rise in price. Wall Street, however, was not only unenthusiastic, but downright rude and subjected them to a severe drubbing...
...rather extreme to expect that these satires will rouse the Spanish in defense of their liberties. For, after all, satire implies a considerable degree of intellect on the part of the reader, and can never be as successful with the masses as downright and obvious abuse. Nevertheless the world outside of Spain finds in the affair a hint of the days when literature had a dash of spiteful fire, and principles had not yet succeeded to the commercial urge. Bagaria will, perhaps, never attain to the immortality of Swift, but his is the honor of adding at least...
Senator Robinson is a downright man. He is quite the Sir Anthony Absolute of the Senate?downright almost to the point of being domineering. Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, Mr. Robinson's colleage from Arkansas, is quite a different type. His movements are slow, his manner is mild, his eyes twinkle, his wit is wicked, but he prefers to express it with a drawl rather than with a growl. And last week Senator Caraway got into a fracas. He was motoring through New York State, according to his account. His son was at the wheel. Another car, driven...
Through such methods, the experimenters approached the problem of banishing the bogeyman. Should they be completely successful, much tearful wailing, much downright agony will be done away with...