Word: forthright
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...were on view, borrowed from such diverse sources as Buckingham Palace, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, Lord Brabourne, the London Foundling Hospital, Hartford's Atheneum, and a Mr. Henderson Inches. The Metropolitan's Copley show traced the artist's development from his stiff but forthright colonial portraits of the 1760s to the slick and unctuous set pieces produced by the Tory expatriate about...
...life, compensating with his intellectual triumphs for the bewilderments and pain of his social failures. The youngest girl, Klari-soon so assimilated she was called Claire-was most deeply influenced by the family transplanting, becoming vigilant and wary as a child, defiant and aloof as an adolescent, practical and forthright with a surprising insight into people as she grew...
...safe & sane though it might sound to most laymen, caused many an old eyebrow to rise in Wall Street last week. For one of the New York Stock Exchange's oldest and most honored traditions is official silence on the state of the market. And the speaker was forthright Charles Richard Gay, the Exchange's "New Deal" president, talking to an Associated Press reporter...
Last fortnight Author Gessner published his findings in a forthright volume calculated to force Jews to a realistic appraisal of the position of their race, to give Gentiles, except those whose prejudices have petrified, an uneasy realization of the crimes that are committed in the name of racial hatred. Mr. Gessner admits that he got very nervous, perhaps even frightened, when, on the train leaving France, an official shouted "Heil Hitler!" and a flustered lady replied, "The same to you." He heard of atrocities, saw some oppression, was not molested himself. But after he visited a famed rabbi in Munich...
...begins promisingly with a forthright description of the major fiasco in the pursuit by Federal agents of John Dillinger-the shooting at Little Bohemia, near Rhinelander, Wis. on April 22, 1934, when agents under Purvis' direction surrounded Dillinger's hiding-place and in the subsequent confusion shot three innocent men and lost one agent to the escaping gunmen. Recounting the last-minute tip that made haste necessary and bad organization inevitable, Author Purvis tells of the flight of three airplanes loaded with special agents from Chicago, of the drive to Little Bohemia in ramshackle cars, of sneaking through...