Word: downrightness
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...beautiful, glistening bubble burst on the Business School field Saturday afternoon. Dartmouth, traditional rival and perennial conqueror of the varsity lacrosse team, won again--by the downright inconsiderate score...
...rest of the 335 pages reveal (in the words of the jacket) how "Martha ... a mere slip of a girl. . . began to learn the things about her husband that so many Southern women in slavery days had to know and bear in silence." Mississippian Kirk McLean is not only "downright fond" of scuppernong wine, he is also the father of at least two quadroons. One day a disgruntled and sulking yellow girl flavors the family tea with a dash of king's yellow, or orpiment, an arsenious pigment. Somebody dies, and the girl is brought to trial...
...Must TIME be so downright popish? What happened to Cardinal Mindszenty was news (but not your speculations about what might have happened...
...played in North Africa and Palestine and, after D-day in Normandy, "followed right behind-discreetly of course," playing on "everything from upright grands to downright shames." At war's end, he was made a commander of the Order of the British Empire...
After having only seen him on the screen, it is pleasant to learn that Jack Haley is no slouch as a comedian, himself. The skits he appears in do not seem as clever as Miss Lillie's, and one of them--"All Over the Map"--is downright painful. But it is difficult not to like Mr. Haley since he has made such an art of portraying the average man without making him out to be also a jerk. Aside from his inescapable, affability, Mr. Haley can be heard in even the farthest reaches of the theater, whether he's speaking...