Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admit mistakes; that he has the kind of filing-case mind and grasp of facts needed for the complex job of being President; that he is intellectually honest; that the people will always know exactly where he stands; that he would give the nation a businesslike, energetic and straightforward government...
Mark Hellinger's method in directing the picture is straightforward, but often ingenious in its use of the camera. Hellinger's only mistake was to extend his spoken commentary over the whole film instead of leaving it as a suitable introduction. The commentary interrupts the picture frequently, and its sentimentality is the film's only major fault. Barry Fitzgerald is completely adequate as the older detective, while the other actors, none of whose names are familiar play uniformly well...
...Richard Kennedy, who makes his bow as a writer-producer with this one, studied 150 movie scripts and 95 pictures while he was getting ready. He evidently studied them too humbly, for his unconventional material is conventionally filmed. However, within its convention this is a good, straightforward job. The story alone would be worth the price of admission...
...read the few books about art available to him, with all the concentration of a virgin deep in tales of love." The books were not much help, so Copley went counter to the conventions and painted as photographically as he knew how. Gradually he evolved a useful and straightforward theory of his own; he concluded that his paintings were "almost always good in proportion to the time I give them, provided I have a subject that is picturesque...
...Defense Ministry last week drew 8,000,000 baht (about $800,000) from the National Bank of Siam. In orderly Western fashion, the Ministry accounted for the expenditure: "to pay coup expenses." Tango Interrupted. The coup itself had been orderly (one of the plotters described it as "very straightforward and very kind-hearted") but a little hard for Westerners to understand. The first point to get straight is that all Siamese politics turns around the rivalry between royalist Field Marshal Phibun (pronounced "fee bun") Songgram and republican Pridi Banomyong, who both went to school in France in the 1920s...