Word: guileless
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...gets away with the feat in the best Howard manner: a polished, guileless, casual, sweet performance-restrained, incredible, a screen Englishman...
...wrap himself up and go to sleep in his, is no exception. The advent of war made him more than ever a superb expression of the democratic way of life. He could only have happened here. Among all the grim and forboding visages of A.D. 1941, his guileless, homely face is the face of a true man of good will. The most appealing new character of this year of war, he is almost sure to end up in the exclusive kingdom of children's classics. He may not become a U.S. folk hero, but he is certainly the mammal...
Most charitable explanation of Wodehouse's conduct came from his daughter in London. "I make no effort to defend my father," she said. "He is one of those guileless men who take people at their face value so long as they are pleasant. ... I know it is idiotic of him, but that's the sort of man he is. I wish I could stop...
Gary Cooper is excellent as the guileless tramp, though by now the role of a good-natured, honest, lovable fellow from the sticks must be getting a little tiring for him. Barbara Stanwyck imitates the movie conception of a woman reporter to perfection, even though in the end she has to let her hair down and become merely A Woman. Edward Arnold also acts out a part which he has played for years--the cigar-smoking, smooth-talking menace who threatens to upset the true-love apple-cart with his foul designs, but in the end is either converted...
...Guileless Senator Logan died, but his fleabite, the Logan-Walter bill, remained to threaten the New Deal with gangrene. Anti-New Dealers saw in the bill a weapon with which to assassinate such agencies as the Securities Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Wage-&-Hour Division. With them were plenty of other men who were honestly outraged by the New Deal's bureaucratic stupidities and abuses...