Word: downrightness
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Every year Down Beat, jazzmen's magazine, polls the trade for its opinions, which are downright. This year's opinions, published last week...
...spoiled Vicksburg boy was president pro tempore of the Senate, chairman of its top committee, Foreign Relations, a major voice in U. S. foreign policy. Still a believer in directness, he spoke his mind with no feeling for statesmanlike discretion. When he felt exuberant sometimes he was downright careless with words. He once called Hitler "a coward." He endorsed sanctions against Italy: "Why shoot a man when you can starve him to death?" On a quiet Thursday morning in December 1938, he typed out a brief statement of U. S. foreign policy...
...childish statement like the above: and an apology generally results a few months later. For instance, a while back George had some rather disparaging remarks to make about The One Inimitable Band Around Today, for which he subsequently apologized. Now that's all fine, as one seldom sees such downright honesty in a critic. However, it seems to me that George would save himself a lot of word-eating if he'd only refrain from his occasional excursions into adolescent bombast...
...along with Charles Martin who are the authors. They say that George sat through the first-night glum as an owl. His wife can make up the situations, but she just doesn't have the lines to go with them. The whole play is strained; at times it gets downright tedious. But Keenan Wynn's playing is very much alive; and the rest of the cast is commendable. At the curtain you feel they have a right to cry "Author, author." They do need...
...Russia has tested this flank several times since the Sino-Japanese War began, and each time had managed to draw Japanese strength away from the attack on China. As Japan bogged deeper in the China Incident she grew less & less antagonistic toward Russia, and lately the Japanese have been downright friendly. Last month the old Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier dispute was settled with considerable backing-down by Japan. Last week that part of the Japanese press which is closest to the Foreign Office began making fresh overtures...