Word: forthright
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...George Harvey, publicist-extraordinary to all Republican nominees since 1916 (before which he helped "make" Woodrow Wilson). Puzzlers for the cause of so much confusion over the status of Senator Moses found it, or thought they did, in the Senator's wetness. He is a much too forthright gentleman to have concealed his personal convictions on the Wet side. There he stands with Senators Edge of New Jersey and Reed of Pennsylvania, and National Committeeman J. Henry Roraback of Connecticut. Though long potent in G. O. P. councils, all are now most inconspicuous in the Hoover movement with...
...Prayer. He continues one of the brightest intellects in the House of Lords.* But he is 80 and the strain of Church of England polemics have strained his once stout physique. York, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, who succeeds him, is 64. He looks like George Washington; is forthright and voluble in debate. Law was his first study. He was a student in the Inner Temple. But just when he might have been admitted to the British bar he suddenly chose the cloth for the gown. His father was one of the moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland...
When grilled by counsel for Scotland Yard as to how he, as a father, could possibly justify such an attitude, Mr. Savidge made a sturdy, forthright reply which could only have come from a lower class Briton who knows that he may never aspire even to the rank of gentleman...
...found at least one more use for a temple consecrated particularly to the happy warrior. But the bonds that once joined the Stadium with the drama of the open air have been allowed to slacken. Past example has proven its worth as an amphitheater. Acoustic difficulties spring up forthright in the layman's mind: the professional has on at least three occasions found them negligible. The association between the Stadium and the theatre's best in artistic out-of-door production is more real than the present desuetude would testify. The man, or the organization, that whispers a realization...
...judicial position which time, fortune and fortitude have gained for the Senior, model of 1928, has provoked at least one of them into the immortality of forthright statement. The Advocate for this month quotes him who said that "within thirty years there would exist no Harvard publication run by undergraduates". This conclusion proceeds from evidence that is lively and undeniable from the point of view of fact; the belief that outside activities, athletic and non-athletic, are on the wane at Harvard...