Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played in Cleveland, but we found that nothing was gained and much lost. In every work, Shake speare has created a background and an environment which, if taken away, destroys the greatness of the play. For instance. 'Romeo and Juliet' requires the romance-breathing Italian atmosphere, while the more blatant, boisterous plays would not be out of place in any country but England. This we found to be the case with 'Hamlet'. Ophelia would lose her charm in modern dress. And then, a change of costume is not needed to make Shakespeare modern. His thought and his humility will always...
Naturally Monsignor Seipel, Chancellor of Austria did not trumpet his proposal, last week, like a blatant babbitt. The Chancellor is by nature as silent as a turtle. Quietly he slipped off to Prague, Czechoslovak capital. There, last week, he conferred with Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes, best-posted diplomat in Europe. Dr. Benes is known to favor moving the League war-extinguisher to a city near the inflammable Balkans. Presently close-lipped Chancellor Seipel said...
...They said: "Certain flowers have a brief but repetitive bloom; likewise a fashion, a joke, a publicity stunt. Press-agent Strouse was clever in that he accurately gauged the precise degree of reportorial gullibility; newshawks are perhaps to be excused for supposing that no one would dare attempt so blatant a hoax in the hope of practicing a deception. Press-agent Strouse indubitably won the game and the game was worth the candy." Smiling slyly, Press-agent Strouse despatched to the newsheets an advertisement for which he would have to pay in cash, an advertisement which he had doubtless prepared...
...play which is not going to open for 20 hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed no courage but much eccentricity by arriving at the Old Playgoers' banquet wearing a white dress cravat of such unique and blatant size that the ends of the bow measured three inches broad, completely masking his collar and neck...
...Giornale d' Italia, blatant Fascist organ, charged that the pamphlet is of "almost official" character and is being distributed to all Jugoslav soldiers and sailors. Pamphlet excerpts...