Word: forthright
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...passerby, puzzled by the vague wording of the come-on, asked what the test was for, he got a forthright answer: syphilis. If he was bashful or figured that this was none of his business, he got a pamphlet spelling out the dangers of undetected syphilis. But plenty of men (and a few women) interrupted their window-shopping or lunchtime sauntering to step behind the screens and take the test...
This hard, forthright statement had an authentic ring. From the London Foreign Office went a query to its Cairo embassy: Does Nasser speak for the regime? Back came the reply: Nasser not only speaks for the regime; he, more than any one man, is the regime. Negotiations opened...
Those who have known Ros longest and best say that her part in Wonderful Town is simply an enlargement of her own personality. She has always been forthright, both "musically and noisily inclined," and has operated under a full head of steam. After the opening, she cried: "Imagine! They're paying me all this money to do the things I do at parties for free!" She is famous in Hollywood for her ability to clown a dying party back on to its feet. Loretta Young recalls that at many a fading soirée, Ros has come...
...arrival of the inquisitors that they will not cooperate with them, that they will assert their constitutional right to refuse to answer questions concerning political beliefs and associations, so dangerous in the present climate, and that they will oppose administrative punishment of their colleagues who have taken this forthright position. It this is not done, the cost is too ghastly to contemplate. Leonard B. Boudin
...Westbrook Poglor's palmier days, before the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt darkened the horizon, the fiery columnist wrote an essay entitled "Are Wrestlers People?" In his customary forthright way, Pegler concluded that any resemblance between "genus home" and "genus grappler" was in no way the fault of the wrestler...