Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosperity in Hollisburg, Hollis County, Ind. He has all the best property, none of the better instincts. Colonel Oliver Perry Morton Hollis and his dark, haughty daughter, Ruth, represent the town's historical background. They have the better instincts, but their property is bred out. A nice, crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen, the big dam gets dynamited...
...regular occupant of this popular Presbyterian pulpit. The occupant has been a Baptist all this time, a member of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, whom the church invited in 1919 to serve as special preacher. The Baptist's name is Dr. Henry Emerson Fosdick. Vigorous, vauntless, straightforward, this man is as eminent and respected a teacher of men as might well be found today in any church of Christendom...
Thus Candidate White. The title doesn't come easily?he has been Editor White so very long. As an editor of a local newspaper, he has made himself a national reputation just by being straightforward, unaffected and hard-hitting. Because of it, the Red Cross sent him to Europe as an observer during the War. Because of it, he was chosen to sit on the jury which awarded Edward W. Bok's peace prize. Because of it, a score of other things have fallen his way. He was in the Roosevelt Progressive Movement from 1912 to 1916, but nominally...
...Signal Tower. Simple, straightforward roles, played without a flourish, directed by anyone with some feeling for proportion and suspense, make passable pictures. Run them off in a mountainous, shaggy, backwoods setting, make Wallace Beery the villain, Rockcliffe Fellowes the hero, Virginia Valli the heroine, and you may turn out the best deep-chested melodrama of the year. That is what Director Clarence Brown did, the story chosen being that of an honest, overalled signalman and his wife, whose hair-raising vicissitudes, domestic and vocational, are caused by a hulking railroad sheik. Punished once for snatching kisses, this sheik chooses...
...resume of authoritative opinion, is for clean-cut college men, some element of fascination--subtlety, humor, finesse--must be introduced to keep them from the book-binding profession, and the lure of bonds. One does not suggest, of course, that modern politics are quite as frank and bluff and straightforward as some would have us believe. But mere trickery and deception is not particularly appealing, nor even the subtle performance of back-patting and hand-shaking. A little more high comedy and a little less low farce would provide a program more attractive to the often slightly aesthetic, and occasionally...