Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father's fields to find the coal that lies under them. The story is perhaps less powerful than some of Author Kaye-Smith's previous charts of hard acres and dialectic heart aches-but it rings clearly and audibly, avoiding the tinkle of artificiality and the blatant jangle of exaggerated sentiment...
...large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination in the primary next spring and her election next autumn, came from the heights and depths of her party. From the depths came a throaty rumble of assent from William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, blatant Mayor of Chicago. From the heights, at a luncheon of the Illinois Republican Women's Clubs, came the staccato bark of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who said: "I am for the women. I recognize their sincerity. When it comes to making mistakes I think the men can give...
Having settled his light, sturdy frame in an easy stance, having stroked once his neat grey mustache, Sir Esme became comfortably and consolingly humorous on the subject of such anti-British tirades as are hurled from the U. S. by William Hale Thompson, blatant Mayor of Chicago (TIME...
Prosperity, a Test. "The test which now confronts the nation is prosperity. There is nothing more likely to reveal the soul of a people. History is littered with stories of nations destroyed by their own wealth. It is true that we have accumulated a small but a blatant fringe of extravagance and waste, nourished in idleness, and another undesirable class who seek to live without work...
While Mr. Lowden has stood thus, he has been shouldered aside by a burly, blatant, sideshow barker from the city, whose ambition is not to sit in the chair himself but to call the crowd, direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...