Word: downrightness
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...show the picture of Himmler on the cover of TIME reserved for honorable and respected men and women is downright insulting...
...additions made by Warners are poor, with but one exception, while the subtractions are downright criminal, but the show was so good that it makes what would otherwise be no picture. There is a plot, but you don't have to worry about it--it's pure Hollywood, and takes up little of your time. The good addition to the show was the character of a tough top sergeant ("he wasn't born, he was issued...
Hope carves up his movie scripts too-and if Bing Crosby is also in the picture, they go in for downright slaughter. To one scripter who turned up on the set of Road to Singapore, Hope hollered: "If you hear any of your dialogue, yell Bingo...
Vatican apologists also like to point to the fact that if Catholic-Fascist relations have been warm in the case of Spain, tolarable in the case of Italy, bearable in the case of Germany, Vatican relations with the democracies have been downright friendly...
...founder, Member of Parliament (a Liberal and later a Laborite) for 36 years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...