Word: outspokenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railroad stocks and bonds slumped. Meanwhile, various ICC members sought to explain their attitude. Only Commissioner Charles D. Mahaffie contended that the increase was not large enough. The other commissioners agreed with outspoken Joseph Eastman, onetime Coordinator of Transportation, who remarked: "It is unnecessary to say that an increase in railroad rates cannot furnish an adequate answer to our transportation problem. At best it is only a palliative and whether it is even that remains to be seen...
...Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after he had run into a ditch and been arrested because he had neglected to buy a license. Now living in Stamford, Conn., where he is writing a long history...
...Grass, Herndon's Life of Lincoln has had a bitter literary history. Herndon, who had been Lincoln's law partner in Springfield for 22 years, began collecting his biographical material immediately after Lincoln's assassination. As monumental books on Lincoln appeared-Lamon & Black's outspoken Life, the ten-volume study of Nicolay & John Hay-Herndon read them eagerly but shook his head because the figures they presented were not the Lincoln he knew...
...fact that the bride is German pleased truculent Greek Dictator General John Metaxas, an outspoken admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, whose brashness makes the Greek Royal Family, all handsome and high-strung as greyhounds, shudder. From England the bridegroom's first cousin Princess Marina, beauteous Duchess of Kent, brought a sprig from the favorite myrtle tree of Queen Victoria, the great-great-grandmother of the bride. From Doom portly Prince Oscar, son of Wilhelm II, brought a sprig of orange blossom from the orangerie of the one-time Kaiser, grandfather of Princess Frederika who wore both sprigs...
...personal life as well as in his art, he was essentially masculine, vigorous, almost brutal at times. In Berlin, where by lived all of his life, he became famous for his outspoken tales at polite dinner parties...