Word: forthright
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...praise to the President for his veto of the revenue bill [TIME, March 6], and to Mr. Willkie for facilitating the veto. This is perhaps the first time the President has been wholly right, or Mr. Willkie wholly forthright, on an urgent domestic issue. Both men, in this instance, have behaved like statesmen, accepting the proper risks or responsibilities of leadership along with the privileges...
...Legislator Zbikowski (see cut), Democrat, mother of one, sister of U.S. Infantry Captain Edward Wozenski, one of the heroes of the Sicily campaign (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943), beat her Bristol opponent (a World War I veteran) neatly in a forthright no-punches-pulled campaign...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery cruised around Britain in high gear last week, visiting camps, inspecting troops, giving forthright pep talks and conferring with field officers who will lead the invasion forces. Monty traveled, as he does everything, with dash and authority. He had a special train, his regular staff, a picked detail of twenty ATS (British WACs) who served as cooks and orderlies...
Faddists of the primitive were fascinated. For Miss Willson's paintings (of subjects like General Washington on Horse, The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony, Riotous Living, Henry and His Pet Goat, Lovers) revealed a forthright, uninhibited graphic touch as clear and gay as sunlight. Typical was General Washington, decorative, naive, fantastic. General and horse were suspended in air, unpropped by Delaware ice cakes or the neoclassic columns of Mount Vernon. The plume on the General's tricorne hat looked like a Christmas tree. Though utterly alone, the Father of His Country drew rein and fired his pistol...
...great religious vision. Sometimes its too high cinematic and religious gentility betrays itself awkwardly, as in the efforts of the cast to say maman (French for "mamma"), which is pronounced practically every way except mammy. But within its limits, most of The Song of Bernadette is reverent, spiritually forthright, dignified. The photography is continuously elegant. Most of the cast (especially Gladys Cooper as a Mistress of Novices) plays with unusual soberness and intensity...