Word: downrightness
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...COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION- George Soule-Macmillan ($2.50). To most U. S. citizens, who refuse to think back to 1776, Revolution is unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of horrifying future events, it remains the most ferocious tiger of them all. Unalarmed by roars that are still caged Author Soule has examined the nature of the beast, pointed out the size and thickness of the bars, and in the calm tones of an oldtime liberal announced that it would be some time before the audience would have to start running for its life. After analyzing the nature of revolution...
...soon deeply touched. At the back of the house their audience was moaning with laughter. The singers were giving of their best; each waved his free hand gently to and fro during tender and plaintive passages. They sang the concluding letters of the alphabet in a manner which was downright voluptuous and with tears streaming down their cheeks...
Drake. Sunny weather and a fast track helped the Western teams to beat most Eastern teams' times in rainy Philadelphia. In the field events, the Drake Relays produced a downright sensation...
...third blessing, NRA provided Mr. Lewis with a new and bigger stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis, unschooled, presumably taught himself to speak with a mouthful of nut coal. In other years his resonant, impressive voice, his downright bearing, his mastery of histrionic pauses, of scathing comment, were used in miners' meetings to make him undisputed leader of the United Mine Workers. They were also used in private wage bickering with coal operators. Neither setting gave him the public recognition which he deserved. General Johnson settled the threatened coal...
There was no evidence that Father Lugena had mistreated his boy. But it was only natural that he should feel some sympathy with another, more famed Hannibal parent, "Pap" Finn, to whom it seemed downright unreasonable that Huckleberry should be sent to school, sleep in a bed and nightshirt like a "sweet-scented dandy" instead of cooking for "Pap" and running his errands. Nevertheless, ruled the National Compliance Board: "Child labor will not be tolerated regardless of relationship...