Word: forthright
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...such as had sat in ancient Rome." He knew "there was no real bond between himself and the rabble of Yankees, backwoods Southerners, and foreign revolutionaries he led; yet there was a drive and a force, and an ache in his heart for something unseen yet tremendously powerful and forthright...
...Allen White called a Quixotic gesture. He rushed into the Republican primary for Governor, on a one-plank platform. The plank: the open shop and "fair" labor legislation. When labor leaders in Kansas City accused him of trying to cripple labor, to prevent the closed shop and "enforced membership," forthright Senator Reed replied: "Exactly what I mean. The gentlemen heard me correctly...
...Forthright Elmer Davis knows what confusion has thus far been wrought in World War II. Said he, in a March broadcast: "The whole Government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen different agencies following different lines. . . . Under one head, with real power, they might get somewhere. . . . Objection has been made that it might be hard to pick the man to head them. But almost anybody would be better than half a dozen heads...
...early Soviet films, Native Land is charged with power by its inline, unswerving theme. It opens softly with a camera portrait of the U.S. which free men have built by virtue of the Bill of Rights, veers suddenly into an outrageous violation of those rights: the murder of a forthright farmer (at Custer, Mich., in 1934) for presuming to speak his mind at a grange meeting...
Syncopation (RKO-Radio) is Hollywood's stoutest attempt to date to tell the story of U.S. popular music and how it grew. Unfortunately, the story, as gangling, forthright Director William Dieterle sees it, is too big for its breeches. Instead of illuminating, it interferes with the Grade-A presentation of a score of melodies, lovingly culled from the past 35 years of U.S. dance music...