Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven States of the Midwest with their 149 electoral votes are to the G. O. P. what the eleven States of the South, with 124 electors, are to the Democracy. They are the cornerstone, the bulwark, among which "bolts" and "splits" and outright transitions occur far less frequently than among the eleven Western States, the eleven Eastern States, the four Border States...
...music, of which he is an accomplished votary; the next twelve in British diplomatic service to many strange countries; the next in writing erudite tracts on geology and archeology; and the latest twelve in more artistic though no less studied writing. His South Wind, which the needy author sold outright for ?75, is an esoteric masterpiece of exotic beauties, which has nevertheless gained wide enough appeal to be published in a cheap popular edition...
...films in three ways. If an American company produces films in France permits will be issued to it. Or an American company may buy a French film and permits, but is under no obligations to exhibit the film. In the third case, it may buy import permits outright from a French exhibitor who has bought a film and permits...
Glass: "The Senator is not doing it outright. He is doing it by the meanest kind of insinuation...
...Treasury Andrew Mellon explained who "Andy" was. He had, he said, received $50,000 worth of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds from Mr. Hays, who asked for $50,000 cash in exchange. "Andy" said he had declined to have anything to do with the bonds, but contributed $50,000 outright. The investigators were sorry "Andy" had been so slow to disclose this additional light on the Hays-Sinclair performance, and invited him to come over from the Treasury Department to tell more about...