Word: downrightness
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...civilizations fall, but homely virtues have almost reached the horrifying proportions of Edgar Guest. But what is even more horrifying is that Judge Hardy pictures in their own peculiar way, are quite appealing, is that Judge Hardy pictures in their own peculiar way, are quite appealing, at times downright good. "Judge Hardy & Son" is one of the passably good ones and one of the more horrifyingly Guestian ones. It just depends on how much folksiness you can stand in order to see a fair-to-middling' picture...
...when she is required to act, dance, and sing through a whole picture, the out-come is not happy. That is not all. Ann completely fails to demonstrate that she is the Earth Mother on Wheels, the Great American Mistress which she is cracked up to be. She is downright disappointing...
...toimport a few more good anthropophagites like me and we would eat 'em alive." As a good Mohammedan, he has three wives and seven legitimate children. "Two wives," says Diouf, "are a necessity for every normal man. A third is apt to be expensive and thefourth is a downright luxury." He loves practical jokes, such as collecting a huge crowd of Frenchmen on the banks of the Seine by pointing at the river and jabbering in pidgin French about how big and dangerous French crocodiles...
Hats, which had lately been, at worst, ridiculously appealing and, at best, downright becoming, threatened to go unattractively cockeyed again-"winged hats," "haloes on a bender," "Milans with tuzzy-muzzy topknots." But men were hardened to nonsensical headgear. What really dudgeoned them was the other extreme-shoes, which had become as hideous as anything in man's long-suffering memory: solid-heel-and-soled, club-footed dumpers, reminiscent of Clementine, the miner's daughter...
...have a working blueprint that at least may bring some improvement. First, the Union Committee's experience and knowledge might be put to use by having them nominate men for specific jobs. Then the class can vote on these men, not for vague prominence as figureheads, but for the downright drudgery of running the Smoker and Jubilee. Both these steps would help get the best men for the jobs, and would let the class run its own affairs. But nobody ought to worry about this business too much; those Freshmen have a head or two on their shoulders, and just...