Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factual. But the newspapers of the U. S. grossly sensationalized the news. To catch the pennies that buy papers, cartoonists for the Chicago Tribune and many another great daily splashed out Chinamen in pigtails* being egged on to clash with U. S. marines by horrifically bearded Bolsheviki. Still more blatant were U. S. headlines. One example...
...Dawes (Chicago banker, U. S. Vice President), organized the Dawes Plan of German Reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 20); and we were both members of the Second Industrial Conference called by President Wilson in 1919." Gloria Swanson, cinema actress, who married a marquis: "Some people accused me of giving blatant gold-digging advice when I told a New York World reporter the following: 'There are times when clothes are about the best investment that a woman can make. If, instead of bleakly saving for her old age, a working girl puts her surplus into attractive gowns, she stands a chance...
Manhattan knows Paul Claudel because the Swedish Ballet Company danced his Man and His Desire just off blatant Broadway, three years ago; and recently the Theatre Guild produced his Tidings Brought To Mary...
...What state has been called "Ohio's coal bin" by certain blatant Ohioans...
...your issue of February seventh, under the caption "The Student Friend ship Fund" appeared the following statements. "There is no very good reason why individual Harvard students should not contribute to Missionary work in spreading any kind of religion they might choose. But that blatant and benighted missionary work should be backed officially in Harvard University is deplorable...