Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without descending to a technicality which would tax the understanding of more modern seafarers, Stanford nevertheless brings to the pages of his novel a real tang of the sea. His straightforward style, carries forward a tale spread over several years, without omitting anything but unessentials. Compactly, tersely worded, with excellent selection of detail, "Invitation to Danger" has not a single wasted chapter or paragraph...
...situation with Mr. Hoover, and that he has not given the President any assurance that in wartime the British navy will respect the right of U. S. merchantmen to freedom of the seas. Since there has been general uneasiness in Britain on the latter point, Mr. MacDonald's straightforward answer cleared the air, enhanced his popularity, banished suspicion that he is an impractical Socialist capable of bartering away Britannia's right to rule the wave...
...Kansas cyclone is a conventional, straightforward sort of catastrophe which comes, blows, goes. More whimsical is a Florida hurricane. Last week residents of Florida's east coast, warned of a hurricane offshore, lashed their awnings, took down their swinging signs, boarded up their show windows, brought home emergency rations, crowded into the supposedly safer southeast rooms of their houses, waited. Still the hurricane dallied among the Bahamas...
...impossible of accomplishment in my lifetime or in the President's tenure of office as anything I can think of. . . . If Prohibition is not effectively enforced until that is done, we will have mighty little Prohibition in this country. . . . What I am trying to do as an earnest and straightforward Prohibitionist is to rescue Prohibition from the uncertain and obscure position to which the President has relegated...
...most autobiographies of famous or semi-famous people this volume gives the impression that it was written because Bill Hart had nothing better to do. In spite of this fact it is interesting reading, being a simple story of one of the first world famous movie stars which is straightforward enough to avoid the possible criticism that it is the work of some other hand. The mere fact that Hart has already four books to his credit is enough to prove this fact...