Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand honest-to-goodness money. The H.A.A. has announced that they will take checks for tickets for the hockey game with Yale tonight, but seven out of ten "importers and exporters" refused to supply beverages for checks. They seemed to oppose it on the grounds that it was not straightforward business. Three local dispensers were even willing to have charge accounts opened, although insisting on a personal interview first...
...Straightforward and outspoken, President von Hindenburg has never concealed his preference for Franz von Papen as Chancellor. "With a heavy heart," he declared amid the Cabinet crisis last fall, "I have repressed my own personal inclination to reappoint Colonel von Papen and I have commissioned Defense Minister General von Schleicher to form a new Cabinet." Next day, ousted von Papen received a photograph of Der Reichspräsident inscribed in Old Paul's firm hand, Ich hatte einen Kameraden ("I had a Comrade"). By last week Comrade von Papen had convinced Comrade von Hindenburg that the best interests...
...TIME, Nov. 25, 1929) was the first U. S. novel-in-woodcuts. A few titles to sections helped keep readers' fingers on the story's thread. Wild Pilgrimage, his third woodcut "novel," must be "read" without benefit of caption or title, but it tells so straightforward a story that no clues are needed. Artist Ward adopts one innovation: pictures printed in black show the events of the narrative; in red, what the hero is thinking...
...high rates have proven irksome and damaging to all concerned. This editorial admits the error of the present policy, explains in some measure the false hopes and complications that have impeded change, and promises that "certainly different price arrangements will be made another year." The attitude throughout is refreshingly straightforward and thorough...
...Joel Sayre's brief novel first published in the American Mercury last January. It uses a simpler technique than recent pictures in the same vein (Once in a Lifetime, The Phantom President) to attain hilarious absurdity. It simply allows the behavior of its characters, who are presented in straightforward fashion, to reach a logical extreme. Good shot: McGloin using a "lie detector" on a speakeasy proprietor...