Word: downrightness
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...permits Martin Greer, hard turfman, to install her as mistress in his mansion. Retaining her dignity and authority before Sportsman Greer and the world of Valesboro, she centres her otherwise thwarted hopes upon her son, plays a lone hand with courage. Not a brilliant piece of work, indeed often downright trite, the book's best recommendation is its publishers' confidence that the public will be pleased...
Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly. His Prospero* calm had left him. He ordered that $100,000 be given to national geological survey and bureau of mines explorers to hunt for potash deposits in Texas...
...country might well take unto itself another compliment for having produced a Will Durant. The Significance of his book is its extraordinary humanization of lives and literature which, for most people, lie moldering in the rat-runs of deserted lecture halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms it has obvious shortcomings - the jump from Aristotle to Bacon; the skimming of Descartes and Hume...
...chief butt of Lardnerian irony, nor has he yet exhausted his variations on the subject. "The Love Nest," "Who Dealt?" and "Reunion" - all connubia- are the three best tricks in this new bagful, unless you choose "Haircut," wherein a smalltown barber unconsciously reveals his hero as a downright skunk. Most of the stories reflect the writer's present environment (Manhattan), figuring producers, stage folk, song-johnnies and the like. In "Women" he is true to his old love- ball players...
...classical allusions, but he can be fierce at times. James Couzens, millionaire, isn't here. He has been ill of late. When he is in top form, he makes a formidable opponent. That solid, dark little man is Robinson, nominal leader of the Democrats. He is a downright fellow. Of late a good deal of his time has been taken in putting through Administration measures-the World Court and the tax bill. There is Walsh; he is the Democrat's hanging prosecutor, only he hasn't found any Republican to gibbet for the public recently. That other...