Word: forthright
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There is great good humor and nonchalance in the way Raoul Walsh directed The Bowery. It is a gay cartoon of a place and a period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...
Still doing things in his own way forthright James Rand Jr. concluded that two short minutes of dignified publicity in the half-hour "March of TIME" program would do more to sell his products than many minutes of high-pressure "blurbing" in a program less straightforward, businesslike and serviceable. He was content to pay for the full half-hour and let TIME'S editors carry on free-handed as of old. The program will come every Friday night at 8:30 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time), the same half-hour and the same Columbia coast-to-coast network over...
...years ago Patrick H. Joyce, burly, forthright president of Chicago Great Western, bought for his road a 20% inter est in Kansas City Southern. He bought it cheap from the hard-pressed Brothers Van Sweringen. The block of 104,500 shares, said President Joyce at the time, would give Great Western "part of the trackage we need for a direct route from the Northwest to the Gulf of Mexico." As to Kansas City Southern itself he added: "We will make a railroad out of it if we can get co-operation." Last week cash looked better than a railroad...
...seas toward Britain last week, U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham stood up in London to make his maiden speech before the Pilgrims Society. Every U. S. Ambassador is fed by and talks to the Pilgrims but not even in the Dawes days had the Pilgrims heard such frank, forthright talk as this. Speaking for his smiling chief at Washington, Ambassador Bingham said...
...chink in the floor of his upstairs room in a little peasant house where he lived to learn and understand the Irish, would appreciate this box-office phrasing. Since O'Casey and Yeats take it with a grain of salt, it must be necessary. The plays are simple and forthright in action. What has made them works of art and at the same time given them market value is the conviction with which their creators seize upon Irish life, portraying it on the stage with truth and sympathy. As important as the plays are the players who fill the roles...