Word: forthright
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...distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style, quickened here & there with a mild, understated humor. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest Tolstoy's War and Peace, the common soldiers as clearly visualized as Tolstoy's peasants. Unlike Tolstoy's masterpiece, it is all war, not only in the sense that there are no scenes of peaceful life poised against the scenes of war, but in the sense that a knowledge of the meaning of peace is absent from the psychology...
Charles W. Chatfield '48, who will assume chairmanship of the new organization, stated that its purpose "is to present the forthright facts on Senator Taft so that there is a fair basis for judgment...
Your article . . . perpetrates a grave injustice to the memory of a forthright and honest...
Personal Traits. A big (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.), smiling, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed Westerner, with thinning grey hair and an easy, friendly manner, he specializes in the homely, forthright phrase, a booming laugh, and a bone-crushing handshake; wears well-tailored blue, grey or brown suits, flashy ties, rimless glasses or glasses with colorless horn rims. He has a standing order that his office door remain open to all callers. He is a joiner: the American Legion, the Elks, the Masons (33rd degree and past Grand Master of California), the Native Sons of the Golden West...
Almost overnight, the namby-pamby Tacoma Times had turned into a crusading newspaper (TIME, Feb. 16). Many Tacomans, unused to forthright journalism, were confused by the new style. In an editorial, Editor William A. Townes tried to straighten them...