Word: downrightness
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...longer do only "immoral" women and men who fear venereal disease use contraceptives. The household demand for contraceptives has made every drugstore in the land, and a multitude of gasoline stations, poolrooms and candy stores supply depots for the material. Most of such items are unreliable. Some are downright dangerous. Consequently the paramount objective of Mrs. Sanger and the American Birth Control League now is to make reliable information and safe contraceptives available to every mature woman who needs them...
...bureau drawer as often as it wants to in order to develop its sensory experience. But to let your two-year-old child, who doesn't need that type of sensory experience, pull out and push in a bureau drawer just because it wants to, is downright damaging to his growth...
...stage show this week is downright good fun--an Argentine orchestra which can really make ones bones tickle with its rhythmic offerings is aided by a brace of the swiftest, nimblest dancers yet contributed by South America and by Jimmy Save, a pantomimist with a definite knack...
...side of poor people against the rich. In the U. S., decades ago, Methodists began preaching Prohibition, that great reform which was to save people from the brewers and saloonkeepers. Methodists also espoused labor's causes - collective bargaining, shorter hours, unemployment insurance- when to do so seemed downright radical. Today in the perceptible leftward swing of U. S. religion, Methodism as a whole has gone farther than any other single sect. Some recent examples...
...years, writes a history of political change from 1814 to 1914. No believer in "scientific" history, or in the Carlylean doctrine of heroes either, he has made his book a judicious blend of historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many a downright unusual opinion. Of Metternich (whom he calls a pompous prig) he says: "His fundamental political principle was simple, that the Powers that be are ordained of God, and must therefore be supported on pain of impiety. The fact that he was the chief of the Powers that be gave to this...