Word: downrightness
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Cowboy King. To Western lovers whose text is the TV screen and the local movie house, the news that Buffalo Bill collected art may sound downright subversive. In fact, it was darned shrewd. Many of the paintings featured old Bill himself, adding luster to his legend. But as a chief scout for the U.S. cavalry and later King of the Cowboys in his own Wild West show, he had a genuine interest in preserving an image of the West that he had known...
...that all snooping relies on dazzling modern means; some is downright oldfashioned. Certain Government agencies have an arrangement with the Washington, D.C., garbagemen to collect the garbage of people under investigation, and deliver it for grubby examination...
...many towns where Newhouse tries to take over a paper, its ownership is likely to be downright hostile. In Mobile, he was warmly received. The majority stockholders had been disturbed by paltry dividends, and they resented the hammer lock held on the papers by the local management. The stockholders were even more irked when management tried to squeeze the nearby Pascagoula Chronicle out of business...
Nearly forgotten nowadays is the fact that Malraux's passion for art once led him to commit an act of downright thievery that got him arrested. The incident, a cause célèbre in 1923, has popped up again with the publication in France of the memoirs of his ex-wife Clara, and a biography by Walter Langlois subtitled Indochina Adventure...
...which promised "harmful consequences for the country at large." During 25 years, said Harlan, "the court has developed an elaborate, sophisticated and sensitive approach to admissibility of confessions." To replace that "totality of circumstances" doctrine with hard and fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops who lie about third-degree tactics used to coerce confessions, he claimed, "are destined to lie as skillfully about warnings and waivers." And anyway, he asked, what is wrong with a little pressure on a suspect? "Until today," he answered, "the role of the Constitution has been only...