Word: downrightness
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...Scrabble has done nothing else, it has proved to many an American that he has a wonky (feeble) vocabulary. Confronted by too many x's or z's, he is apt to be a coof (blockhead), and left with an excess of vowels, he can appear downright dowf (stupid). Last week help came from the colleges, in the form of a special lexicon called What's That Word? (The Times Press, Wakefield, R.I.; 40?). Compiled by two veteran theme correctors-Martha Wright of the University of Massachusetts and Tony Hofford of the University of Rhode Island...
...engage the reader's sympathy. It is one of the merits of Novelist Brooks that he can disengage the social absurdities and crotchetiness of the passing generation from the admirable character that lies underneath. In fact, young Tom Osborne, nice, sensible fellow that he is, looks and sounds downright uninteresting when he is set beside his retired-lawyer father and his crusty contemporaries back home...
...uncertainty is understandable in a picture cuffed off as casually as Beat the Devil was. The marvel is that there is not more uncertainty. And yet, actually, the bluffing and the weasels and the downright mistakes are what give this picture, as they give a jam session, its personal style. What one comes to hear is not the clinkers but those crazy riffs, of which Beat the Devil has some fine ones...
...Capitol Hill, even Dulles' admirers gasped at this new date to wrestle two bears simultaneously, for if the hopes for Berlin were slim, the chances of getting out of Geneva without a mauling seemed downright perilous...
...short, Carnival by the Sea would be downright unbearable, not merely morbid, if 31-year-old Author Sigrid de Lima had not fashioned it with a sensitive mind and a good writing hand. Mrs. Albany's troubled character and Author de Lima's basic theorem become clearer with the turning pages. In effect, it is that love is a current, and that stagnant love turns to hate. As a new bride, Mrs. Albany had been shocked to discover that her husband had married her only to give his first wife's children a mother; the springs...