Word: downrightness
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...some delightful dances; gifted Harold Lang and others do some delightful dancing; and Nancy Walker, a fine comic, takes excellent care of the comedy. But the minute Look, Ma gives its toes a rest, it becomes all thumbs. Its music is not very bright, and its book is downright dull...
...Veterans Administration, doesn't think so. Said he in Los Angeles last week: "Many veterans choose courses that will be of no vocational benefit. Others continue to enter certain glamor courses where employment opportunities are either poor or do not exist [e.g., flying, television, plastics]. It seems a downright shame to see them frittering away their valuable benefits." The trouble, said Price, lies with state agencies which authorize frivolous courses which the Veterans Administration is bound to approve...
...garden. Her life became the hundreds & hundreds of poems-many without form but few without magical phrasing-that made her, among other things, a "humorist of agony." Playwright Gardner writes of Emily appreciatively enough, but Eastward in Eden is neither very poetic nor very dramatic, and is often downright dull...
...indigo snake, the other with a 6-ft. corn snake wrapped around her neck, appeared at the White House and asked to see the President. Gate guards held them at bay. The idea, said the girls, was to show the public that most snakes are not only harmless, but downright useful in killing rats and mice. ¶ Fed up with "high prices and no homes," 18 men, women & children sailed from Los Angeles in a 73-ft. tug to establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles off the coast of Panama. ¶ In Manhattan, the nation...
...Royal Family and it bores me." A London cook and waitress politely declined a proffered holiday to celebrate the great event. "We'll go if you think we should, Madam," they told their American mistress. There were other Britons as apathetic, and some were downright resentful at the gushers of news concerning the wedding...