Word: downrightness
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Freedom from want was downright Communistic propaganda. Said he: "A fellow who is free from want is dead." And freedom from fear was just "a political slogan. Our American pioneers didn't have to apologize for their fear of the Indians." The council hastily reversed itself, and instructed the city manager to look through the Constitution of the U.S. for a "more appropriate quotation...
...Roller Derby is good entertainment. It can be fairly exciting and if you pick a night when the competitors happen to be in a particularly surly mood, I suppose it could be downright dangerous. The Roller Derby appears to have more staying power than another Seltzer concoction, the Marathon Dance, and is no doubt worthwhile observing--mainly for chuckles...
Finally, Bingham announced, that the Big Three rivalry didn't mean much any more. This comment was not only ill-advised but downright untrue. If the Big Three rivalry means nothing, why do 60,000 people come to the Harvard-Yale game annually? Why does that game lead most of the Sunday sports sections the following day? Why does the Yale game count twice as much as any other game toward earning a letter? Why are the Harvard-Princeton and the Harvard-Yale games the only ones which undergraduates and alumni always attend regardless of price or team records...
...open letter to the members of the House, entitled "Cannon Crackers," Mr. Perkins commented that "throwing these things is downright dangerous...
...butter in the oven, the egg beater under a sofa cushion; she short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright silly. But since almost all of Irma's blunders turn out right in the end, the audience is left with the possibly comforting thought that stupidity is simply the longest way round to happiness...