Word: downright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader in the Senate, onetime (1928) candidate for Vice President, downright, not too bright, given to thunderous wrath...
However, we will let this pass as pardonable ignorance. But there is something also in the same article which can only be attributed to downright malice or idiocy. Your Editor says further...
...determine, however, if these facilities may by some means be made as available to the undergraduate as are such institutions for instance as the Widener Library. The iron bound regulations of Boylston Hall in regard to closing hours have for years been an inconvenience and in many cases a downright hardship. Every student in even the most elementary chemistry course knows the annoyance and loss of time engendered by the inexorable cry "Close up; time to close up! When he has assembled a complicated apparatus and proceeded half way through a difficult experiment. Even though five minutes might suffice...
This year the Midwest loomed more important than ever because it was throughout the Midwest that the Hoover nomination was most bitterly opposed. In Ohio there was Willis; in Indiana, Watson; in Illinois, Lowden; in Nebraska, Norris; in Kansas, Curtisall, except Lowden and Curtis, more downright anti-Hooverish than outright ambitious...
Philadelphians had the right to be downright vexed last week. For a month the transcontinental bus system projected last summer (TIME, June 4) and now named Yelloway-Pioneer System had been operating between Los Angeles and Philadelphia. But the country was told very little of the accomplishment. Last week the bus system was extended to Manhattan, 3,433 highway miles from Los Angeles, and there was much to do. A Mrs. C. A. Jondro of Los Angeles, one of the four persons who made the whole journey (in 5 days, 14 hours), declared the ride more comfortable than by train...