Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world series of the professional baseball leagues, the games in the coliseum at Rome or the races in Constantinople which brought Justinian into conflict with the populace", but "the true end lies in promoting physical development and well being throughout the student body." This is an enlightened and straightforward recognition of the distorted values which have been placed on collegiate athletics. It gives assurance of corrective measures at Harvard and hope that they will be applied generally in the colleges and universities of the United States as the movement spreads...
...have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half small-animal, half fairy, in which no one could fail to believe, if only because it is quaint, beautiful, impossible...
...Family" is a comedy, a straightforward he-man affair, with no subtlety, no Arlenesque sophistication. The players all say what they mean, and they inflect their voices in such a manner that there can be no possible doubt about the words meaning just what they do in the dictionary. And the acting is much of the same variety. Every motion that is made says to the audience "Let me explain" and there is never a good line spoken but what the whole cast violently signals to the audience "Get ready to laugh. One-two-threee...
Speaking in straightforward fashion, M. de Jouvenel described the bombardment of Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9) as a police necessity, characterized the savage Druse tribesmen as "inveterate trouble makers." Even as he spoke French machine guns were crackling in Syria. More than 100 Druses were slain during "mopping up" operations by French troops last week...
...Venice. Clad in a breath-taking scarlet robe, Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared to Mr. Walter Hampden's Shylock a creation of the role of Portia which flamed like the attack of a young and flighty tanager upon an old and steady-going raven. Mr. Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap. Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene...