Word: matter-of-fact
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...staid columns of the Chicago Journal of Commerce last week appeared a matter-of-fact little item reporting the formation and election of officers of an organization called the Grand Knights of the Hose. Its status was apparently that of a fun division of the big, serious-minded National Association of Petroleum Retailers, trade body for the nation's filling stations. Spontaneously organized...
...anti-Nazi activities of his brother Heinrich, his son Klaus and daughter Erika. Sometimes he said he kept silent to protect his German readers. Sometimes, when reporters got him to the point of discussing Hitler or his own status as an exile, he was checked by shrewd, matter-of-fact, English-speaking Frau Mann, who hovered near, adroitly answered for him. In voluntary exile in Zurich since Hitler came to power, officially deprived of German citizenship last December, his property confiscated and books burned, Dr. Mann nevertheless held his tongue, waited until the right moment to strike back...
...down-to-earth, practical. Our appeal is to the matter-of-fact, mechanically-minded man, who can make things and do things, and who knows or wants to know what makes the wheels go 'round...
...imaginative world that has occupied him ever since. It is a world such as no other U. S. novelist has presented, a world of small towns and cities that are quiet on the surface, inwardly seething with inarticulate poetic restlessness. Its inhabitants usually seem plausible and matter-of-fact at first acquaintance, but they brood, talk to themselves, take long walks at night, sometimes shout out incoherent poetry, have a tendency to leave wives, homes, business. Naïve, unpredictable, constantly bemused by the world around them, they have nevertheless possessed a homely reality, emerged as far more life-like...
...whose ideal in life was expressed in Longfellow's lines, Make a house where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean, found his adulterous passion creating an impossible situation. So did his father who discovered his secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple to the point of bleakness ir its plot, The Old Ashburn Place goes or to recount Charlie's gradual resignation before the complexities of life, his reconciliation with his brother, the accidental death...