Word: downrightness
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Next day Iturbi was downright contrite when he was jumped upon by "trash" composers, their friends and Edwin Claude Mills of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, the latter suggesting that his potent organization might forbid Iturbi to play its copyrighted works. Hastily Iturbi withdrew his remarks about "trash," revised them to refer to "very light songs that anybody can hear any time over the air." Fearful of offending Gershwin partisans, Iturbi insisted that he had gone to see Girl Crazy no less than 14 times...
This mourning was real for Joe Robinson. Although he was not a good fellow in the backslapping line, although he had no facile charm or unusual mental gifts, although he was a downright man and snorted at his opponents, his fighting courage was deeply respected, his grim rectitude unquestioned. He was above demagoguery. Tom Heflin in his time and Huey Long in his, both inspired Joe Robinson's contempt and he voiced it so frankly that he made them his particular enemies. He had two virtues prized above all others by professional politicians: his word was good...
...founded as an elevator repair company in 1883, when elevators were still a rarity, by Alonzo Bertram See, an upstate New Yorker with exceptionally downright opinions even in his teens. He worked for Otis for a while, then set up his own shop in a basement on Manhattan's Centre Street. Thence he moved to Brooklyn and started manufacturing A. B. See elevators. By 1909 Mr. See had a $1,000,000 business, still largely consisting of carriage lifts (for storing carriages in stables) and genteel elevators for four-and six-story brownstone houses. About that time Alonzo...
Nine years ago Kenneth Roberts was known to Saturday Evening Post readers as a crack correspondent, a downright, factual, lively reporter of events in the U. S., Europe, the Orient. But Kenneth Roberts was not content to be one of the best U. S. journalists. For years he had had an Idea, which crystallized into an Ambition. The Idea: that historians are mainly knaves or fools, have falsified the facts. The Ambition: to become America's best historical novelist. For years he had been "mousing around for something to write that would have my own sort of people...
This militant Congressman was Clare Hoffman of Allegan, an indefatigable 61-year-old Republican who looks like the late Will Rogers. He has been known as a friend of public power, a foe of C.I.O. Somewhat excitable by temperament, Mr. Hoffman by last week was downright jumpy. Though Monroe, Mich., where C.I.O. was beaten fortnight ago when Republic Steel's local plant was reopened after a brisk picket line skirmish, is not in Congressman Hoffman's district, a brief visit there was enough...