Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the largest and perhaps the most blatant exhibit at the convention. Huge electric signs gleamed: "CHAMPION OF THE WORLD," "WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER." Printed matter told how the Tribune had licked Mayor Thompson & friends; how, because of the Tribune, "Chicago can again walk proudly among the cities!-and the class in advertising may now step up and learn a lesson from the politicians...
...sometimes startlingly successful effort to tell about the complicated agonies that go on inside of a character called Him and a girl called Me. When the focus on this effort is lessened, people on the stage sing "Frankie and Johnny" with splendid effect; homosexuals make their most blatant appearance on the Manhattan stage; three old ladies called "weirds" talk about a pet hippopotamus, saying "It's toasted but it died." On the whole, him is an interesting, well acted and ambitious failure. Author e. e. cummings (his own lower cases) is also the author of a bitter and unwholesome...
...Senator Heflin tried to obtain the Forsyth County Court House at Winston-Salem, N. C., to hold an anti-Smith demonstration. But the County Commissioners refused to allow it. Senator Heflin, blatant bigot, would injure Winston-Salem's reputation and lower the prestige of North Carolina Democrats, they said...
Meanwhile the Liberal Star expressed "amazement at the orgy of violence which marked Chicago's municipal elections," and the blatant Daily Mail gave the impression that every Chicagoan who voted did so in imminent peril of being bombed. Even factual Times cried emotionally that "in Chicago every man's hand seems to be raised against his fellow and the preponderating mass of law-abiding citizens is almost powerless to check the orgy of violence...
...calling for his copy at the magazine stand here at the Statler Hotel, in a loud voice, and that when the girl attendant handed him a copy of the Hearst Times, he spelled it out for her in a loud voice. There seems to be no reason for such blatant, goatlike manners. If he used such mannersin ordering a copy of Liberty, or Snappy Stories, it could be understood, but not with TIME. Furthermore, I have been buying magazines and newspapers at the local stand in the Statler for many months, and never have I found it necessary to bellow...