Word: downrightness
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...designing beautiful clothes for women is no longer exclusive with a dozen dressmakers in Paris. During the past year U. S. designers have been well publicized, and a notion has got abroad that Paris is losing initiative in setting fashions. Downright U. S. citizens who rather hoped so were thoroughly disabused last week when U. S. buyers and wholesalers flocked into Paris like homing birds for Fashion's greatest circus : the annual autumn openings of the great couturiers...
...dull joke" or "definitely exotic" or commit the old fallacy of expressing the term "dead languages" in a tone of contempt. To postulate as a self evident truth the fact that there is nothing of importance in the doings of man before 1900, is to exhibit a downright ignorance of the past and foolishly sublime confidence in the present. The test of and education lies in the degree to which it strengthens individual character. Certainly, experience has shown that it does not convey "immediate, practical, and marketable, qualities" as the Crimson suggests. Personality is marketable not a course in government...
...chances are 7-to-1 that in twelve years of public school a child will get two maladjusted teachers-either unstable and neurotic or downright psychopathic...
...fortnight, fastidious New York car-owners, bolting on new plates, have wondered. That they should be asked to make peripatetic billboards of their cars to carry free advertising for what is partly private enterprise was to some no more than a high piece of cheekiness; to others it was downright invasion of their constitutional rights...
...ever afforded journalists the downright uncomfortable immediacy of the Chinese-Japanese 1937 conflict. The immediacy is substantiated by the casualty list...