Word: matter-of-fact
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...have a more than passing acquaintance, both with public speaking in general and with Hoover's public speaking in particular, and, although it is true that the Secretary of Commerce is no spellbinder, no dealer in mellifluous mouthing, he is nonetheless a straightforward, direct, matter-of-fact speaker, who never talks unless he has something to say and who, when he has, says it in language that no one can fail to understand. His delivery and voice have both improved in recent years and still leave much to be desired. They are certainly far from being so poor, however...
Rubbers are not romantic. Neither are auto tires, nursing nipples, hot water bags or rubber boots. But last week rubber-romance kindled in the quiet, Gothic depths of the House of Commons. There Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pronounced a few matter-of-fact words which altered the destiny of Britain's wide-flung rubber plantations in Malaya. Straits Settlements and Ceylon. To U. S. motorists the pronouncement meant that raw rubber suitable for tire-making will probably be stabilized in price at a figure less than half of what was paid last year...
...mind with octogenarians who state in birthday interviews that the present generation ushers in the dawn of a new and marvelous day. He says merely that "intellectually and socially, we have not yet caught up with our own inventions and discoveries;" and belives that, all things considered, the "matter-of-fact acceptance" of the new world by the undergraduate promises well...
Metabel felt lonely; and, save for her dog, Musket, she was all alone as she stepped through the woods that lay along Hemlock mountain. Finally she came to a little low cottage where she went in and stayed. In the cottage lived Uncle Henry, a severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than...
Such Is Life. The iron, generally, has been driven into the soul of young playwrights who label their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness...