Word: downrightness
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Lady Astor, the House of Commons' uppity, downright, Virginia-born viscountess, vowed that not even V-E day would wean her from teetotalism: "Sometimes I am tempted, but I do not fall...
Civilian hospitals and doctors are loath to cooperate, for a very good reason: they hate to lose their help. They will sometimes even go so far as to give a nurse a bad report in order to hang onto her. Civilian nurses, admitting that few of them are downright eager to join, turned their sharpest words on the Army Nurse Corps. Complaints from nurses in the Corps, they said, are enough to cool their ardor. Some of these complaints are just normal gripes: U.S. women hate to be ordered around, particularly by other women; homesick Army nurses may exaggerate their...
...them no time to recover. It was near-miraculous that two-thirds of the Tokyo raiders were serviced and in shape to lash at Nagoya within 48 hours; as a rule, half the heavy bombers used on a strike are ready to fly again four days later. It was downright miraculous that a high proportion of the Superfortresses used in the first two strikes were ready for use again at Osaka, again at Kobe, and in a repeat raid on Nagoya-all within ten days. Some of LeMay's ground crews on Saipan, Tinian and Guam, worked 48 hours...
...funny thing about the American people is that they know it is downright naughty to take off your coat in the rain. They know that twelve years of the world's toughest job does things to a man's health. They know that King Lear was a little touched in the head before he defied the elements. They know that winter is coming on. Moscow has a cold climate. Stalin does not like to travel. Let's hope the President stays home...
...Merry Monahans (Universal), a jigsaw of nostalgic cliche, sometimes mildly pleasing, never downright unpleasant, involves vaudevillians Jack Oakie, Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in one more exhumation of variety's vanished glories. Chief problem in this one: keeping Paterfamilias Oakie, a sterling performer when sober, away from the bottle. Jack Oakie continues as amiably reliable as a merry-go-round. Miss Ryan is less rambunctious and more human than before. Donald O'Connor, besides being a solid vaudevillian, remains the most likable juvenile in pictures...