Word: forthrightly
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...wrote his name on Oxford's roster?Cecil John Rhodes?but never studied overhard. Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius, two boyhood friends, were about all he took back to Africa with him. Few men have as much; besides, the spirit of Cecil John Rhodes, essentially practical, essentially forthright and upright, needed little bolstering...
...disorderly street seen from a window, cobbled with yellow faces, it teems; adventures shoulder and jostle; events prod each other's ribs; Sentimentality picks the pocket of Romance. One is forcibly reminded that nothing is quite so dull as unvaried liveliness. It is a book that achieves a forthright swagger that the fiction of this latter day has largely lost. Beauty in distress is white; villainy is black indeed. It relinquishes, at the same time, whatever graces of subtlety and invention the fiction of this latter day has gained...
Senator Wadsworth of New York, only 47, able and forthright, was a leading possibility because of his prominent place in the group of younger regulars...
Although fair in its news, the Times is yet editorially a partisan-not a narrow partisan, to be sure, but one that is forthright and firm in its faith. Editorially, the Times is as strong a pro-Davis paper as there is in the country. The record of its pro-Davis activities does not begin with the present campaign-it began long...
...PACK?Rowland Kenney ?Seltzer ($2.00). Despite its troubadour-like title, this is no pretty-gypsy tale of wanderings amid the birds and flowers?never think it. It moves with elaborate unconcern through the adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about...