Word: downrightness
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...writer that Mary Roberts Rinehart has told, in My Story, more than even an insatiably curious public either desires or deserves. As a series of magazine articles (My Story ran serially in Good Housekeeping) it has its points; .as a 432-page book it makes scrappy and sometimes downright dull reading...
Mosley campaign methods are brazen, breezy and effective. They electioneer from a limousine, confounding tattered hecklers with the question: "Why shouldn't we be comfortable?" She kisses babies without bothering to doff her pearls. The only downright campaign lie he tells is this...
...pretty progressive. When as Governor (1923-25) he began the direct sale of gasoline in competition with private companies, the same people were sure he was a radical. When last week he delivered his inaugural address as Governor for the second time, they were convinced that he was downright revolutionary. Were he as able as his late Brother William he would be to these people infinitely more dangerous...
...usual college lecture ranks next to the recitation. Lecturers are rare, particularly among lecturers, just as teachers are rare particularly among teachers. To staff a college with teachers who can teach is difficult enough. To staff a college with teachers who can teach by lecturing is all but downright impossible. If you have a number of such teachers at Harvard, how many institutions share Harvard's good fortune...
...engaged couple. In accordance with tradition Miss Walker, in a night gown, together with her betrothed, is placed upon a haystack to endure with the audience ten minutes of as vulgar wise-cracking as Boston has ever heard. It is not funny or even cleverly risque; it is just downright smutty...