Word: forthrightness
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...thought the German reparations would ever be paid. "None of your damned business!" he snapped; and in that outspoken spirit he ably chairmaned the international committee whose report was adopted as "The Dawes Plan." Last week Vice President Dawes was awarded half the Nobel Peace Prize for 1925. Forthright, he at once made clear that he considers the prize a tribute to the committee which he chairmaned, though the reputed $16,000 will of course go to him. The rest of the 1925 prize, and the two halves of the 1926 prize were awarded last week respectively to the three...
...speaker, forthright, vehement, was not the President of Mexico, Plutarcho Elias Calles. He was instead the Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah. He was commenting on the release to the press last week of an exchange of notes between the U. S. and Mexico. He concluded: "There is a difference of view between the two Governments as to the effect of Mexico's Constitution and laws upon property of Americans. . . . Undoubtedly emphatic language has been used. . . . But I do not find in the notes any threat, any ultimatum. ... I do not think...
...presence of women he would often lose his simple forthright manner and turn himself into a pompous and mouthy sentimentalist-or else remain spellbound and silent...
...made happy by Amherst. He held them in supreme contempt. He directed a subordinate: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." Bluff, arrogant, forthright, Amherst is thus seen as a soldier of quite modern scientific resourcefulness, for all the eclipse that his military record suffered through the brilliancy of Wolfe, captor of Quebec...
...real estate dealers have induced many people, "smart," "artistic" and "high-grade," to fix their abodes. At No. 23 lives Katherine Cornell, famed actress; at No. 27, Actor William Farnum; nearby are Earle Booth, Margalo Gillmore; and at No. 37 one Marcus Schlossman, dealer in plumbing supplies, a blunt forthright fellow, has his home. Long has Plumber Schlossman viewed with alarm the growing "exclusiveness" of the district, the efforts of realtors to attract even more fine feathers. It did not help the plumbing trade, that much he knew. Was such cock-loftiness even American? Did it not endanger the very...