Word: matter-of-fact
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...medals on his chest, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the U. S., faced the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, including bemedaled Charles Gates Dawes, who did tit for tat at the Court of St. James's. Lord Lothian in his matter-of-fact way gave what he called an honest account of what Britons "think and hope and fear" about the war. He told his U. S. audience that the British Government was not "trying to drag you into this war," but that Britain did look forward to the day when the U. S. would...
...undergraduates came to know John D. Merrill. More's the pity. Now that he's gone it's hard to think of a man who typifies so well the true Yankee, Harvard gentleman. Wise, modest, matter-of-fact, for a half century he wrote politics for New England in the Boston Globe, and for almost as long he edited the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...years ago he made a statement for the day that marked the beginning of the '30s. He was then Governor of New York; his New Year's speech for the first day of 1930 was his address to the Legislature. It was calm, unimaginative, matter-of-fact. It dealt with local issues - power rates, antiquated traffic laws, highway improvements. Last week he worked on his message to Congress. But if, like many a U. S. citizen, he looked back over the years between those speeches, it was to contemplate a period that future historians may well call...
...With hunger and cold came pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, pleurisy, aggravations of cardiac and diabetic cases, said the society's matter-of-fact report...
...knew he was a good flier and had been pleased to have the public acknowledge it, but matter-of-fact Lindbergh could no more understand the public's mass hysteria than the public could understand...