In lieu of flowers please raise a celebratory glass to Charlie, a wonderful, forthright man with an edge of "sandpaper charm" and quick retorts.
His reputation as a straight, forthright man was earned from an early age when at the age of 14 he left school following his father's death to become chief breadwinner for his family.
Out on the street, a number of men had gathered, and one of them, a wiry, forthright man in his forties, said his name was Maher.
He was a brave, forthright man.
Fellow Watch Tower Society director A. H. Macmillan says Rutherford "spoke as simply and directly to the people as he knew how, and he was an extremely forthright man.
Connecticut representative John Larson, who was scheduled to meet with House speaker Paul Ryan later in the day to talk about the gun control standoff, hailed Ryan as a "honest and forthright man" who is "not just speaker for the Republican conference" but "speaker of the entire house".
McCain is known to be a forthright, noble man, but the cozy connection he has with Fehr is unsettling enough to make anyone wonder if the spectacle that unfolded before the senators yesterday was nothing more than election-year showboating.
"He is about as forthright as a bayonet, and writers respect him as the most honest, forthright man in this bizarre business".
The baneful consequences of an irresponsible mismanagement of the global economy, guided only by ambition for wealth and power, must serve as a summons to a forthright reflection on man: "man is not only a freedom which he creates for himself.
But he earns that sympathy, as a writer and a man, by producing such a forthright and human and exhilaratingly gloomy book.
