Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Creoles is a well-dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls...
...awaited report of the Dartmouth Athletic Council on the football proposals referred to it by President Hopkins last winter is surprising both in the clear and concise manner of its statement and the general favor which it accords to the primary aims of the Dartmouth head. True it disagrees outright with one suggestion and expresses considerable doubt as to the efficacy of another, while supporting the most revolutionary of the proposals in full. But even as it refuses to acknowledge the "thought that college football anywhere has been so exploited beyond all other college activities as to seriously and harmfully...
...know a real gold brick when they see one-including onetime Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President James G. Harbord of the Radio Corp. of America, John T. Underwood (typewriters), onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co.-had bought Inventor Josepho's device outright, also retaining him as technical adviser and vice president of their company, Photomaton Inc. Soon street sheiks, titian cashiers, small-scale honeymooners and spreeing butter-and-eggers will start raining quarters into Vanity Fair's newest coffers, to make sure what they look like. In six months, 280,000 people...
...electricians, policemen, streetcar men, firemen, bookkeepers, teachers, librarians and like members of the thrifty and shifted classes, for I have provided rooms at rents they can afford. Each tenant pays down $1,000 to $1,700 cash, and thereafter $64 to $100 monthly. Eventually he will own his apartment outright. All this I have made possible by financing the construction at exceedingly low interest rates...
...drawing slips of paper from a hat. The teams crowded around the first tee as their rival captains prepared to drive. Suddenly a premeditated bedlam broke loose. Ladies hooted, screamed, blew tin whistles, danced, threw clubs in air, did their utmost to superinduce inaccuracy among the opposition. Nothing save outright mayhem was barred. The match (two-ball) continued, team members shooting in rotation, regardless of allotted implements. The bedlam continued with increasing fury; no lady was spared. The ninth green found the contestants so exhausted that the match was then terminated by common consent. Adding machines clicked. It was found...