Word: downrightness
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South. Curious to Northerners was a heady exhilaration that spread over the South despite losses, annoyances, discomforts and downright suffering. There was misery enough in cold cabins, but Negro boys in Mississippi had a wonderful time hunting rabbits with fast dogs and hickory sticks. Off the front pages of Southern newspapers went accounts of war and politics last week, and in their place appeared proud pictures of sternwheelers being crushed in the unprecedented ice, parks glinting and glistening in the heaviest snow, pretty girls being pushed into the deepest snowdrifts anybody could remember. There were some reports of snowfights; there...
...first chance to star. Unfortunately, Hollywood has now got the idea that "social significance" has something to do with the amusement business. So the picture, which takes its name from a truncated Russian mandolin, the balalaika, includes not only fatuously lovable grand dukes and musicians, but downright sinister Bolsheviks. It also includes Baritone Nelson Eddy, the Russian Cossack Choir, an excellent cast (Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Charles Ruggles, C. Aubrey Smith) and a lot of gorgeous clothing and sets...
...Only three of the original numbers remain. The new show cannot, from the fame of the old one, provide the same kind of exciting surprise. But on its merits it is a much better show. It is better put together, better paced, better performed. It has four or five downright bad numbers, but no longer any heavy and humorless ones, and it has ceased to be amateurish while remaining fresh...
...advertisers well know, women buy far more body deodorants than men do. Yet it is equally well known that, while women merely glow, the same occasions put men in a downright sweat. This damp fact has been experimentally confirmed by Dr. James Daniel Hardy and his co-workers at Manhattan's Russell Sage Institute of Pathology. Last week they announced their findings-appropriately enough, at a symposium of temperature held by the American Institute of Physics...
...feat-of-the-week, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised, French troop movements on the Western Front were reported with so little detail they sounded downright dreamy. While Germany's Propaganda Ministry (see col. 2) exulted over the capture of each unpronounceable Polish town, and handed over photographs of Hitler at the front, Hitler comforting the wounded, Hitler sitting in an automobile, Hitler peering through a telescope, Lord Macmillan at first clamped down on all wire...