Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swallowing the Canadian scheme whole, then spitting out the wheat kernel. "Baldwin! Baldwin! Again Baldwin!" sneered the press peer in one of his papers. "We want no more of Baldwin!" (Baron Beaverbrook of course advocates food tariffs.) As a matter of expediency the MacDonaid cabinet pigeonholed Canada's straightforward proposal last week in an especially created committee, sorely vexed Canada's Bennett who soon afterward gave a dinner to all important correspondents in London, thereby, perhaps, increasing their sympathy with his plans...
Aside from the presumption of making cheap talk about prosperity at a time when unemployment is causing acute suffering, the Massachusetts Republicans lose sight of their public duty when in a Walpole-like fashion they refuse to go to the polls on a straightforward platform. Prohibition is the issue in this election and it is an issue of grave importance for the future welfare of the Commonwealth. For the Republican press to becloud that issue with nonsense about a Democratic depression is to affirm their belief in the doctrine that it is easy to fool enough of the people...
Although Miss Methot has played in The Song & Dance Man, Half Gods and the musicomedy Great Day, this is her first big part. Spectators found her technique simple, straightforward, sincere...
...Siberian Taiga (Amkino). Because its scene is one of the world's wildest frontiers and its direction straightforward and vital in the Russian manner, this ought to be important. It fails because, as usual, the makers have loaded on a dismal weight of propaganda. Hero is Kevebel Kima, a long haired, slant-eyed native of that swamp- land past the Siberian frontiers called Taiga. The theme is the conflict between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right...
Like James Joyce's famed Ulysses in its unity of time and place, unlike Ulysses in its straightforward, simple narration, Dr. Serocold tells the events of 24 hours in the life of a country doctor. At three in the morning of Dr. Luke Serocold's 65th birthday he closes the eyes of his old friend and partner; at midnight he helps his assistant at a difficult delivery. "The day that had begun with an old man's death had ended with the birth of a child." The time between is filled with his usual rounds: n visits...