Word: downrightness
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Perhaps the only downright disparaging remark England's Queen-Empress Mary is known to have uttered was her icy observation, four years ago, that the Queen of a certain Balkan state, who was then touring the U. S., ought to go to Hollywood and remain there. Queen Marie is Queen Mary's husband's second cousin...
...only of the Association but of a large number of undergraduates who were not present at the benefit dance in Brattle Hall. There is a definite feeling that the campaign from the start has been motivated not by a genuine sympathy with the discharged workers but by a downright inclination towards smug exploitation...
...they were to withstand the stiff competition of the bootlegging industry, a more modern, more effective sales argument had to be found. The solution to the difficult merchandising apparently turned out to lie in intimidation, big and tough talk, and downright bullying. A ready market was created as soon as the winning smile was discarded for hard-boiled scowls and Chicago along. Most effective of all was the brandishing of a neat steel-blue automatic. No direct threats are known to have been made, but insinuations of what had happened to other undergraduates who had crossed the paths of these...
...Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader in the Senate, onetime (1928) candidate for Vice President, downright, not too bright, given to thunderous wrath...
However, we will let this pass as pardonable ignorance. But there is something also in the same article which can only be attributed to downright malice or idiocy. Your Editor says further...