Word: downrightness
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...Though he is warned by his son and a mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches on, the Fascist armies are rolling in and the Professor is in prison, marked for execution "while attempting to escape." In plot, The Professor might be called downright hackneyed, but no anti-fascist novel has contained more skilful individual scenes-the Professor looking over a display of stylish gas masks, listening to soap-boxers in the park, his encounter with an old classmate turned Fascist, his dreams following a narrow escape from assassination, his doting attentions...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt added her voice to the chorus of the pressure groups last fortnight when, in Washington, she addressed the Conference on the Cause & Cure of War (representing 6,000,000 women) in terms which could easily have been construed as downright belligerent. Said she: "I think we ought to urge upon our own people a strict examination of themselves, to say to them, 'What are you willing to give up from a material standpoint, to keep the world at peace? And what are you willing to do to bring your moral support to bear in favor...
Missouri's Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern is a downright jurist who once kept a delegation of striking building workers away from his home with a shotgun. Every two years comes his turn to preside over his court's criminal division, and Judge Southern has taught wrongdoers to watch the calendar carefully. Last time he sat he tried to probe Kansas City's notorious 1936 election frauds, but Federal authorities beat him to the draw in a prosecution of 200 election officials and workers that severely shook the Pendergast machine...
Even in the best of times it is not the easiest thing to reach eighty without a bundle of besetting doubts of Things as They Are and at least a modest core of downright skepticism. To have retained poise and serenity and faith against recent developments is an achievement of which Mr. Littauer may well be proud. Boston Transcript...
...Japan's denial of U. S. rights in China is a downright violation of "several binding international agreements" (notably the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922) to which Japan, the U. S. and other powers are parties...