Word: downrightness
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Judging by newspaper accounts of it, the annual freshman riot at Yale was a great success. As institutions, a class spread, or a picnic, or a jubilee may be well enough in their way, but Yale freshmen are sure that for downright fun a good, democratic riot, with bonfires to dance around, and bottles to throw, and instructors to throw at--why there's no comparison...
...Church. "Latterly, into the public eye has been thrust an open propaganda that shocks the moral sense of every true follower of Christ. Christian sentiment against it has found expression in the law of the land forbidding the dissemination of the knowledge of its practices. Yet the downright perversion of human cooperation with the Creator in the propagation of the human family is openly advocated and defended...
...principal lecture rooms in Langdell Hall", he says, "and the three principal lecture rooms in Austin Hall, the capacity indicated is to he had only by crowding in extra chairs man extent which is not consistent with convenient use of the rooms, and in some instances is downright unsafe. In two lecture rooms it has been necessary to put in chairs with no bench or arm upon which to write. Obviously such a condition impairs the effectiveness of the teaching...
...opponents. His 20 years of service in the House, culminating in his leadership in that body, his nine years in the Senate have won him a large place even in Republican eyes. Not so brilliant as Harrison, nor so brilliant as Heflin, not so witty as Caraway, nor so downright as Robinson, his prestige is as great as that of any of them. Muscle Shoals lies in his own state. Heflin, also from Alabama, has done an almost endless amount of talking about it. Underwood sent out to find a practical settlement...
When the Yellow Cab and Yellow Manufacturing stocks were brought on to Manhattan and listed on the Manhattan exchanges, many expected to see a further rise in price. Wall Street, however, was not only unenthusiastic, but downright rude and subjected them to a severe drubbing...