Word: forthright
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...cars. Said he: "This ain't the same auto you had the last time you arrested me." He and his pals, it developed, had gotten into the meat market twice before, had scored a $63 haul the first time, but had been nabbed on a second try. With forthright gravity, Richard described other details of his criminal career: he had also helped break into a hardware store, a fish market, a dress shop, a dry-cleaning establishment and a candy store...
...reign of Edward VII, the rakish son of this sober pair, is wittily described in the imaginary diary of a putative secretary to the King-though it passes over in silence what must have been the domestic travails of Edward's good Queen Alexandra. The forthright role of the royal family in two world wars is given due credit, and the constitutional crisis that dethroned Edward VIII gets a judicious, white-gloved examination. Bolitho concludes that, although the tasks of kingship were apparently "intolerable" to Edward, "as heir to the throne he was the noblest and most devoted Prince...
...next half dozen years, Karen behaves herself, bursting into prissy tantrums only when Max's doglike devotion takes a forthright husbandly turn: "No, please don't. If it's not. . . mental mauling and messing about, it has to be the other kind." At a point where friends might have recommended a good psychoanalyst, Max packs the family off for a long holiday in Florence...
Some Cheap Hotel. A lanky, crew-cut 16, well-born Holden Caulfield is sure all the world is out of step but him. His code is the survival of the flippest, and he talks a lingo as forthright and gamy, in its way, as a soldier's. Flunking four subjects out of five, he has just been fired from his fourth school...
Crisp and cool in a newly pressed spring suit, Dean Acheson faced his weekly press conference. He knew what was coming. The 130 reporters who crowded into the room last week had carefully studied two forthright speeches on China made by top State Department officials a few days before (TIME, May 28), and were ready with a barrage of questions. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk had said that Chiang Kaishek, and not the Communists, was the authentic representative of China's millions; Rusk also hinted that the U.S. stood ready to help any revolt against China's "foreign masters...