Word: downright
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college, and gains the admiring interest of untold millions of newspaper readers, and hears the wild applause of the thousands who see the great game. But I've often asked myself whether it ever occurs to the athlete to think that it is precisely these qualities-in a word, downright sand- that go to the making of the great scholar...
More recently the pygmies have become "jaundiced-eyed," "contemptible quitters," "ready to scuttle and run," who should "put up or shut up," and "take it or leave it" in a state of "just downright ignorance" and still destined to be "gibbeted," and their conduct was linked with "cowardice...
...examples of words which the editor despises. According to the "Bookman," "sense" appears as a verb in every form from the "father sensed his son's abstraction" to the "peeling infant sensed the coming of the succulent milk-bottle." "Poignant" is on the blacklist because of its downright stupidity, "stipend" because of its oily politician sound. "Remuneration" is a foolishly long latinized word, and "dainty" and "refined" are classed as belonging to the "chewing gum" variety...
...Here and there one hears the mischievous suggestion that the administration costs of the Red Cross absorb about 70 percent of these contributions. This is a downright lie. Not one penny of the money contributed to war relief will be deducted for administration expenses. These expenses are very small, as a matter of fact, because 90 percent of the Red Cross workers give their services absolutely without charge, and the small necessary expenses are more than covered by the membership dues...
...charges of criminal prosecution, it is time that the matter be taken hold of with a firm hand. Like many other of our war projects, the whole affair is surrounded with a haze of conjecture and uncertainty, but the mists have been cleared away sufficiently to reveal corruption and downright fraud of the worst order. The reports of Mr. Borglum, the special commissioner, and of the Aeronautical Association of America, when added to the recent admission that building was practically at a standstill, leave these facts beyond a doubt...