Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forthright and fresh if his latest music is not. Strauss's enemies feed on his personal shortcomings. His conceit, they say, is enormous. To keep him in Vienna for four months a year, Austria gave him the Belvedere Palace, once occupied by the ill-fated Archduke Francis Ferdinand.* Visitors complain that to enter and see the composer they must first clean the soles of their shoes. Mercenary Strauss undoubtedly is. He lives carefully in his home in Garmisch near Munich. Where royalties are concerned he is a notoriously hard bargainer. At the beginning of his career he planned...
Professor Haney's interest in Economics Statistics is only that of a godfather. A quiet little man of 52 who likes to play a clarinet in his family trio, he writes a daily financial column for Hearstpapers which is noted for its forthright opinions. More than once during Depression Hearst-readers found a stinging Haney article sandwiched between the professional optimism of regular Hearst financial editors. Last week Professor Haney said: "I am widely known for my adverse criticism of the New Deal and of NRA in particular...
America's great moral paragon, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, has again leaped to the front with one of those magnanimous and forthright gestures that have so endeared him to the hearts of his beloved countrymen. He has refused to take part in the army air investigation, despite the fact that he might gain much power and glory thereby. Still the simple modest lad that flew the Atlantic all by himself, he eschews the temptations of this life when to yield to them would be to sacrifice his faith. So he has--at what cost only he can know--remained true...
...Generally speaking the dead cats are fewer in number and have lost some of their ripeness and velocity. . . . But a storm is brewing. . . . There will be a distinct movement to repeal this act under this slogan of 'oppression of small enterprise.' It won't be a forthright open movement for repeal. These gentlemen do not dare do that. Some of this will be done by a Senator whom I love for his intestinal fortitude perhaps more than any Senator other than Carter Glass. . . . It will be an attempt to put in the act about three lines forbidding...
...actors are not well known on Broadway. They do a forthright job, with little subtlety of voice, expression, or movement, and very much in keeping with the play. They are so castly amusing, though, that carping at them makes us feel like an ingrate. You'll enjoy this play, gentlemen, even if it doesn't selves any problems...