Word: forthrightly
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Flashbulbs popped. General Vaughan shook his fist under a photographer's nose and bellowed: "How would you like a punch in the nose?" The photographer suggested it would be a mistake-for Vaughan. "After all," snapped forthright Harry Vaughan, "I am the President's military aide. You guys will want favors at the White House some...
Mozart: Sonata in B Flat, K. 454 (Georg Kulenkampff, violin; Georg Sold, piano; English Decca, 6 sides). A clean, forthright performance of a minor classic. Recording: excellent...
...Rudolf Bing thought over his new job of running the world's greatest opera house-an institution which went $233,000 into the red in 1947-48, and almost failed to open last season at all, until its unionized workers unwillingly agreed to pass up raises. In his forthright way, Bing had lots of confidence. The job had "just blown up suddenly," he said, but it apparently was not too much of a surprise: "For 15 years, I have known that some day I would reach that goal...
Apparently, parents cannot win. Non-allergic children, more forthright than the allergic, work off their hostility by temper tantrums and calling their parents names. As five-year-old Andy explained: "I like to scare my mother and hit her. I call her names, too, and I make a whole bunch of noise. I scream so loud she thinks I die and that scares her good...
Harold Stassen, pinch-hitting for President Truman, who was to have delivered the convocation's closing address, made an able, forthright speech in which he made a specific proposal for backward areas. Said he: "The Marshall Plan in Europe has been the most significant single right thing we have done since the end of the war. It is high time that we have a parallel MacArthur Plan in Asia...