Word: downrightness
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...blind surrender to faith. Whether the Americans are one step ahead or behind remains where all decisions of this kind have remained--with the individual. At least Mr. Croy avoids dogmatism in his own code, a novelty in a day when inventors and manufacturers are become the most downright of theologians...
...Smoking, among men atleast, depends for its existence upon its sociability; if it were considered proper to smoke only in absolute privacy the habit would soon disappear. Nor is the masculine smoking room usually a place of retreat from the world: it is usually one of hospitality, if not downright conviviality. To an old story, however, it will now be necessary to make an addition. The Princeton man lights first your cigarette and then his; the Yale man lights first his and then yours: the Harvard man lights his own and throws the match away: and the Vassar senior goes...
Foreign-born Canadian commuters said that the ruling was downright exclusion. They could not get the necessary visas from their native countries if the immigration quotas from those countries were filled. They pictured themselves and their families destitute. Through officials they appealed to Premier W. L. MacKenzie King of Canada. Thus came to Vincent L. Massey, Canada's first minister to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 22), his first truly knotty assignment in Canadian-U. S. relations. The handiest solution that he might urge would be to have foreign-born Canadian commuters classed specially as nonquota immigrants, a distinction...
...midair collision of the New York and Detroit at Palomar, Argentine (TIME, March 7) with its two deaths, appeared to have softened South American hearts to the U. S. "good will" bearers, whose receptions, both in the press and officially, were, prior to that, cool if not downright unfriendly...
...Worcester, Mass., for a symposium on psychical research, called by Dr. Carl Murchison, Clark psychology chief, for the express purpose of assembling all evidence pro and con on returned spirits and publishing an impartial record. Dr. Murchison first made it clear that he and his Clark colleagues were downright skeptics, then opened the conference with a paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist movement. Psychic research was described by Sir Arthur as "a sort of super-materialism;" the spiritist movement...