Word: downrightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark. In the third row, beside the aisle, handling his books and papers, the downright Robinson, Democratic leader, maintained a watchful eye on the course of legislation, now and then casting in a tart remark or direction...
...with the best of the Broadway productions"--it may not. It is a Pudding show, obliged at times to stick inside the limitations of the current ritual of honky-tonk, but for the most part fresh as no Broadway show will ever be, inspired, perspiring, untiring, and at times downright comical. At no time will it be mistaken for a page from Hans Christia nor John Murray Anderson; there are, however, moments in it when the mournful editors of Punch and Life would wish to God they had thought of that first...
...York Tribune: "The story is at once serious and sentimental and is saved only from downright banality and absurdity by its swift, fine, unusual limning of character, its philosophical digressions, and its descriptive certainty and distinction...
...great juggling of diplomatic pawns and castles, the layout of the board appears to be as follows: the English government under the pressure of its public's desire for action has joined with France practically on the latter's terms; the United States, having been at first so downright, feels unable to do this but President Coolidge, to back his gestures of help toward Europe, will "view with favor" the acceptance by Americans--as private citizens--of the invitation to join in the investigation. The government would seem to have little to say about whether private citizens, if they...
...ever there was a downright plea to the sympathies, the passions, the prejudices of the jury for six hours or more, you have heard it here . . . And that story about the ring. "Why, Munchausen was beaten by hundreds of miles by the man who made up that story...