Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...omission of which a newspaperman can stand accused." In some states the law would have protected them from such questioning. New York has no such law. So last week Clarke and Leonard were fined $100 each for contempt of court and clapped into jail to serve ten days. (They straightway began writing a series on prison life...
...Straightway a storm of protest broke around radio's brasshats. The big wind mounted to cyclone velocity after the net works gave the silent treatment to Bob Hope (eight seconds) and to Red Skelton (twelve seconds), who both tried to get in the act on their Tuesday night programs...
Another $100,000 fell between two plump divorcees named Mary Markovich and Anna Osojnak while they labored in a Manhattan automat. Straightway, they began to weep and dream of freedom and fur coats...
...Straightway Virginias led the maid a little space aside...
...When he met Banker Straight and his wife on an ocean crossing, the shy, religiously intellectual Croly had a challenging book on political philosophy to his credit (The Promise of American Life), and a burning desire to run a liberal magazine. Impressed by his zeal, the Straights straightway became his converts and backers. His object: "Less to inform or entertain [my] readers than to start little insurrections in the realm of their convictions...