Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt announced a program of increased power production to lower power rates, Utilityman Ross stormed up & down the Northwest denouncing this as faulty theory, declaring that the cost of power distribution rather than production is what makes rates high. Liking the forthright Ross manner, President Roosevelt put him on the SEC to take care of utility restriction & registration. As administrator of Bonneville. he will have charge both of producing and of marketing power...
Barbers who are restrained by professional ethics from shaving their customers with anything more than polite firmness would turn green with envy at the forthright way Mexican goat-shearers shear goats. A goat is taken, brusquely by the scruff of its neck and thrown to the ground. The shearer holds it down with his knee while he clips its belly. Patient old goats who have outgrown their tick-lishness lie still; young goats squirm. The goat's four feet have meanwhile been bunched together and tied. The shearer clips as much of its back as he can reach, flops...
...indeed they recall one whit of hesitation on their own part as of five months ago. Professor Munn has started the ball rolling with a force that may even neutralize and overbalance future Thursday distractions such as hour exams and deb parties. By coming, out in sincere, forthright fashion behind the theme that the "world is too much with us", Professor Munn gave embryo philosophers something to test their newly digested theory upon, and whether he was able to settle anything in their minds or not, he definitely aided in making the issue a vigorous, living concern...
...they were, dissident Friends would not consider themselves bound by the results. Most that a meeting does is to decide that "the sense of the meeting" subscribes to this or that generality. Chief matter on which the second World Conference was in agreement was that Quakers must be forthright, militant pacifists...
...Manhattan, one Max Berger, 70, stepped into an East Side subway at 125th St. carrying under his arm a live chicken. Intended for his dinner, it had been presented to him by his sweetheart. Forthright little Mr. Berger plumped himself down into a seat and began to pluck feathers from the chicken's hind quarters, reciting, presumably: "She loves me, she loves me not," to the accompaniment of horrified squawks from the chicken. Presently a Brooklyn passenger named Kay Nelson protested to Mr. Berger. Mr. Berger reassured Mr. Nelson. Said he, "I am only taking off the feathers because...