Word: forthright
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...great German romanticist, Robert Schuman, Composer William Schuman is a forthright Manhattan-born Yankee. Son of a lithographer, he started his career as a Tin-Pan Alley composer, collaborating with Frank Loesser in such gems as In Love With the Memory of You. Now he teaches composition and leads the chorus at Sarah Lawrence College...
Leader of the resistance is the ex-Primate of Norway, forthright Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Oslo. Quisling haled him in soon after his resignation, accused him of treason, finally shouted: "You triple traitor! You deserve to have your head chopped off." "Here I am," answered Berggrav, but his offer was not taken...
...page-one cartoon, the Tribune dramatized its own nobility. Around a forthright central figure curiously reminiscent of a Johnnie Walker whiskey ad revolved the Tribune's detractors in their ugliest guise: Spiders H. V. Kaltenborn and Walter Winchell with microphones; Moths Marshall Field and Frank Knox; Skunk Harold Ickes; cigaret-smoking Hen Dorothy Thompson; a lean crow representing the New York Herald Tribune, which dared recently to comment on some of the Chicago Tribune's antics...
...covered the period between 1914 and 1941. This cross-section of U.S. printmaking showed that: 1) in variety and quality of work, U.S. printmakers were leading the world; 2) since World War I, U.S. print-makers had turned gradually from Romantic Venetian canals and Gothic cathedrals to forthright, glamorless, often satirical comments on the U.S. scene...
Articulate, charming and forthright, Vicki Baum made excellent copy. She told women's clubs that American men were boyish and courteous but not quite aware enough of the necessity of romance; she fell off a horse and got a mild concussion; she spent several months in Bali and months more cruising Shanghai in disguise; she was one of few women who could count both Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo among her friends; she told Kansas City that American women drink too much...