Word: downrightness
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...year's Davis Cup team, was playing brilliant tennis again. He had three easy matches before he played Gregory Mangin, U. S. Indoor champion, and won in straight sets to reach the quarter finals. U. S. Champion Vines, whose game this year has veered from merely erratic to downright bad, wobbled through his early matches but won them all: one against Harry Hopman of Australia who had beaten him in the London championship the week before...
...Herbert Hoover, private citizen, was thoroughly interested, if not downright excited. Just before the opening gavel Presidential Rule No. 7 (TIME, November 24, 1930) was observed when White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone announced: "Our present national leadership is bearing a greater strain than ever was the portion of any other President. Thank God, our President is a physical rarity. In spite of the incomparable burdens he is bearing. President Hoover is in excellent health...
Stigmatizing the American people as simple and unsophisticated because they put their trust in an unsuccessful school system. Dr. George Sylvester Counts attacks the major weaknesses of modern educational methods in the current New Republic. His target is the downright hypocrisy of pedagogical institution, which would be too upright. The way in which the indecisive, blind policy of the public schools turns out a product highly uneducated is convincingly set forth. Dr. Counts takes as his thesis the faults of the schools which would straddle every question, be all things to all men, a course which emasculates their powers...
...Senator Walsh topped the slate of Smith delegates-at-large with 153,303 votes, the Governor's son James was high man on the Roosevelt slate with only 56,480. Few observers had anticipated a Smith defeat but fewer had expected the bandwagon candidate to get such a downright drubbing...
...profile of Homer and a laugh that brought the roof down. He wasted all his money on two objects: to help others and alchemy. He held huge courts every day in his garden and entertained all the learned men of all religions, rajas and beggars, saints and downright villains, all delightfully mixed up and all treated as one. And then his alchemy! Oh. dear, night and day the experiments went on and every man who brought a new prescription was welcome as a brother. But this alchemy is, you know, only the material counterpart of a poet's craving...