Word: guilelessly
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...earnest characters" who met for "shoptalk about sterility" (p. 56) like the "characters [who] paid 50? to get in" to "sleazy Stillman's Gym" (p. 61)? Or like the "characters not out of the stock-type catalogue" (p. 64) ? Or like the "characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology...
...will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down off the barrel. 'I slop out a lot,' says Lena." "Somebody Loses." The characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology are seldom the local boys who made good. Some of his Rotarian fellow townsmen, who dislike his stuff because it makes Three Rivers out to be the queen of hick towns, have on occasion asked the Journal to throw him out. Chet dislikes them just as much. Says he: "Rotary...
...that ex-King Carol of Rumania wanted to come to the U.S., "but of course we can't let him in." Mrs. Roosevelt: "Franklin, don't say 'we can't let him in.' . . . You know who they'll blame . . . me." Churchill, with a "guileless" grin: "A matter of matrimony, I believe." Loud laughter...
...Guileless Americans. In jungle areas they place fallen trees in front of their positions and snipe at our men, who are obliged to clamber over these trees, often stumbling in the process. For this purpose, U.S. snipers often take up positions in standing trees near...
...were returning from calisthenics one morning, one junior was heard to say to another: "When we are seniors, I hope we are in that good shape." Ever since then we have been a little uncertain as to just how the remark should have been interpreted. Supposedly the remark was guileless, but then, we have a suspicion that most of the juniors are not as innocent as they look -- they couldn't be! So we shall have to go on the assumption that the remark was meant to be a compliment...