Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letters published in your last issue were the last word in blatant conceit. You begin by being rude and contradictory on the subject of Washington's religion; you go on, print a deserved letter of correction (about ships and whistles) because it contains a whining compliment ; then you tell President George Davis how to manage his Davis automobile business; then, forgetting to apologize for the mistake it chastizes, you proudly display a letter from a member of the U. S. Treasury Department; this is followed by an unsolicited list of the U. S. Senators who subscribe to your magazine...
...boards of Symphony Hall in a garb flaming and diaphanous. The not inconsiderable Socialist population of Gotham could never learn of he deportation in face of the God's-in-his-heaven, all's-right-with-the-world air with which the Boston press pounced upon the news. This blatant person had been delivered to the mercies of her beloved Russia; what an excellent fit was the punishment...
...felt himself-at last-unable to combat intelligent-argument with loud and blatant phrases. They all lay down sooner or later...
...prosperous cities? Chicago, for the most blatant ex- ample?have such frightful local governments? A Hottentot could give the answer; the electorates do not care...
Your correspondent in Milwaukee, John Muller, who praised you for not printing Lindbergh's picture on the front cover and who prophesied so blithely that one or more Junkers' planes will come gliding into New York with no fuss or fiddling, must now feel like the blatant tactless ass that he gives every appearance of being...