Word: downrightness
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...Very few members of the war classes attained distinction, and the number of misfits and downright rascals was considerable. Ephraim Eliot, who in after life became an apothecary, has left us a mordant account of his own class of 1780, thirty strong at graduation. One, a transfer from Yale to the senior class, was 'a good scholar and respectable'; a second, a transfer from Dartmouth, was 'a decent scholar, and rather more than a quack doctor'; and there were also three or four 'respectable characters' who had not been to other colleges. But there was a sad example...
Until last week Big Business left unchallenged the downright declaration in President Roosevelt's Jefferson Day speech in Manhattan that reduction of manufacturing costs meant not more but less purchasing power for the nation (TIME, May 4). Though the President appeared to contradict himself a few days later at a White House press conference while elaborating upon the high cost of old-fashioned building methods, his statement was overlooked by no alert businessman. Last week in Los Angeles General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan, a representative of an industry whose history is most clearly at variance with the President...
...Author Thompson had lingered long with any of the people in Third Act in Venice, readers might have found some ordinary, others downright unlikable. might have decided their story was a highly colored mess. Thanks to Author Thompson's restless skill, however, it emerges from dubious beginnings into tragic romance, a moral tale to melt a worldling. Francis Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste...
...anyone who needed convincing that these plutocrats were not only unpleasant to look at and think about, but downright crooked as well, their maneuvers and squirmings under the Senate's investigation should be sufficient proof. Mr. Black, by his own admission, is only looking for facts, secrets, and publicity; the combination can only be harmful to those who have done wrong. If, as he proves in his article in February's Harpers, "the spokesmen of these greedy groups never rest in their opposition to exposure and publicity," it follows for sure that they are guilty, and deserve anything...
...seemingly valid Canadian passports. That Dominion subjects should have muscled in to this extent was surprising. That the cream of London's daughters of vice should be paying tribute to an ex-Devil's Islander able to enforce his rule by trans-Channel assassination, was downright shocking. According to police, "Vice Lord" Vernon's women have been recruited from the poorer classes in Poland and Eastern Europe. They all know how to lisp in French-English and large numbers, after being "burnt out" in London, have been exported to South America, the sink into which the dregs...