Word: downrightness
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Three fine football players have gone out for rugby this spring, and they all think they've stumbled onto a great new sport. Arnie Horween, the newest man out, is downright effusive...
From Countess Pia's point of view, however, it passed too fast. By 1948, her poetry had taken on a brooding tone, and Carlo's had become downright morbid: "I see death moving about in the room." One night in September of that year, Pia and her husband, the Sacchis and Sacchi's newest girl friend were all dining together in sophisticated splendor at the sumptuous Villa d'Este. "An ill wind is blowing for me tonight," murmured Sacchi darkly. Eying Sacchi's new girl, Pia asked a friend: "What...
...mistaken one of the boss's concubines for his wife, and escorted the concubine unannounced straight into the boss's office. Would Eriko be fired? Would her boy friend walk out on her? All of a sudden, Japanese listeners seemed to have lost interest. Moreover, some were downright disgusted. Complained one housewife: "I had been led to believe that Eriko would be happily married by this time. I don't like the program any more...
During his long career Sculptor Jacob Epstein, 71, has occasionally tried his hand at religious subjects. To the orthodox, the results have usually seemed artistically outrageous, if not downright blasphemous. Epstein's phallephoric Adam was denounced as pornography; his Jacob and the Angel, billed as "the world's greatest shocker," went on tour in an artistic peepshow; G. K. Chesterton took one look at his square, squat Ecce Homo, then thundered at it as "one of the greatest insults to religion I've ever seen...
Golden Silence. For the Eisenhower professionals and advance men, Ike's silence had long since become downright embarrassing. One good reason: the Republican National Committee will meet in San Francisco in mid-January. Without a sign from Paris, Ike-minded delegates run the risk that Bob Taft's forces will storm the meeting and capture the G.O.P. convention machinery...