Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine features, a sensitive mouth and engaging gaucheries. He has made uneven work of his part; at moments he achieves just the right mixture of weakness and fineness to play the son that Seth is ashamed of. Mr. Huston makes a going concern of a patchy plot by his forthright vitality...
...established, with a Secretary of Education in the Cabinet. This has been urged by many an educator; the National Education Association has gone on record for it every year since 1917. But President Hoover has only vaguely encouraged the idea. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur announced his forthright opposition to a Department of Education. Because of this. Dr. James McKeen Cattell, able editor of scientific periodicals, onetime Columbia professor, expressed alarm last September at a "Memorandum of Progress" which the Advisory Council published in July 1930 intimating that a Federal department would be disapproved. Dr. Cattell called secretary...
...period, Mae West in some of her lines attains the lush bawdiness of her earlier production: "That dame [Cleopatra] went in for everything . . . she even went to bed with snakes." "I never turn anything down but the bed-covers." She plays the part of Prostitute Babe Gordon with a forthright enthusiasm, sometimes tempered by irony, as in the curtain line, after she has convinced her husband that she is not living with another man (which she is) and the husband has mouthed a few platitudes about Faith. Says Babe Gordon: "I used to know a fine poem about Faith...
Once considered a smart young bad boy of English letters, Aldous Huxley is conquering his cleverness, subduing it to a useful tool. Born a highbrow, he has become an uncommonly sensible intellectual realist. There are times in this collection of essays when he reminds you of the late forthright Enoch Arnold Bennett. The voice is similar but the hands are different: for Huxley is on the whole preoccupied with universal, not parochial, themes...
...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South) at Montreat, N. C., last week made no such ado about Birth Control and the Council. Forthright conservatives who know their own minds, they simply denounced Birth Control, refused to allot their annual scot of $750 to the Federal Council, and voted complete severance from that interdenominational organization, although expressing for it unanimous "fraternal love...