Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lardner was not actually concerned in the writing of the play, yet the leading character resembles his celebrated Jack Keefe, the conceited, blatant young professional baseballer. If the resemblance had been accurate, Solid Ivory might have been a sensation. As it is, it is simply a fair slang comedy, glorifying the home...
...every hand law violation obtrudes its hideous head and blatant voice. A wet press and unfriendly magazine writers wrongly charge to prohibition scores of crimes and deplorable conditions; in any locality petty violations of the prohibition law can be greatly minimized if local sentiment expresses itself in prompt, constructive community action against them, rather than dissipating its energies in passive bewailing and garbled gossip...
Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle of "Health." "There he stands, almost in the garb with which nature clad him, a majestic figure with lungs inflated, pompadour defying the world. His skin . . . is full of strength. . . . He has taken what should be a beautiful search for health, for vigor and for strength, and made of it an ugly and discouraging thing to every right-minded individual...
When a somewhat blatant advertisement of the intellectual prowess of Mr. Glenn Frank, President of the University of Wisconsin, whilom editor of the Century, appeared in a recent issue of the Editor and Publisher (TIME, Sept. 21) many people were ready to excuse the poor taste of such ballyhooing on the score: 1) that Mr. Frank's abilities were no whit diminished by the undue noise being made over them, and 2) that he, quite possibly, knew nothing whatever about the advertisement. Last week, however, the Washington Post issued a quarter-page thesis which sought to "sell" President...
...most colossal and ruinous social sin that afflicts mankind: it is utterly and irremediably unchristian; in its total method and effect it means everything that Jesus did not mean and it means nothing that He did mean; it is a more blatant denial of every Christian doctrine about God and man than all the theoretical atheists on earth ever could devise...