Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honors" courses will be extended in due time; the faculty will be enlarged and more money will be appropriated. But in the meantime, it is not mitigating this particular cause of undergraduate unrest for the blatant iconoclast to fire at our overlord, charging that he will not suffer his foot to be moved...
...epidemics, reported by each city to be well in hand, called forth fresh outbursts from antiserum faddists, notably Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle to vulgarians of "physical culture." Macfadden's Manhattan sheetlet, The Graphic, ran "screamers" about "two persons known to be dead from tetanus following the injection of pus from diseased animals" in Baltimore. Health officials admitted the deaths from tetanus, then explained to the newspaper that the serum injected was not "cow-pox," but human smallpox, scientifically prepared in the glycerated lymph of calves. "This," said The Graphic, "is little else than a form of variolation which...
...which lasted for 15 minutes, was moderate and uninteresting. He refrained from attacking anybody but deprecated the distortionate propaganda that had been circulated about him. He called for German unity, voiced a determination that through peaceful means Germany would be steered to her place in the sun, scored "the blatant falsehoods about military reaction having inspired my candidacy...
...runs the catch line of a onetime popular song-a ditty which was scratched from every phonograph, mewed through the sinus cavities of every cabaret tenor who could boast a nose, caroled by housewives at their tubs and business men at their shaving. Before the echoes of the blatant dirge had been quite relegated to that mortuary of all songs - the monkey-organ - certain tenors were beginning to thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan, two Italian gentlemen striving for the place of "leading tenor...
...offensive because it is metropolitan taste. To me, urbanity is the ability to offend without being offensive, to startle composure and to deride without ribaldry. The editors of the periodical you forwarded are, I understand, members of a literary clique. They should learn that there is no provincialism so blatant as that of the metropolitan who lacks urbanity. They were quite correct, however, in their original assertion. The New Yorker is not for the old lady in Dubuque...