Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...created the rocky crags, the woods, the Ramapo mountain wilderness, the lake which the Indians had named Ptuck-sepo, 40-odd miles northwest of blatant, roistering Manhattan. But it was Pierre Lorillard (snuff & tobacco) who foreclosed a mortgage in 1814 and began to make this wilderness into a 600,000-acre property for the Lorillards. The memory of Pierre "will be preserved in the annals of New York. ... He led people by the nose for the best part of a century and made his enormous fortune by giving them that to chew which they could not swallow...
...spoken of the dangers of war. What looked like a choice was presented to the people: "Do we as a free people agree that the Axis powers must be defeated?" Calm judgment, and weighing of the real alternatives are thus neatly dispensed with, and yet there is no blatant emotionalism to antagonize anyone. Thus does President Conant present the great question...
...dozen are among the world's greatest in the form. But one would never know this from what is played in concert. One would remain equally unacquainted with the extraordinary beautiful Schumann concerto. Instead one gets things like the Liszt concertos and the Brahms D-minor Concerto empty, blatant showpieces dug up by the soloists to exhibit their virtuosity...
Year after the fire crime was more blatant, the police more useless than ever. From 1871 to 1894 Chicago had one active patrolman for every 20,000 residents. The Chicago Times in 1877 looked upon the rebuilt city, saw "orgies held there that . . . indicate that ancient Sodom and Gomorrah had phoenixed themselves somewhere in the neighborhood...
...desire has Berlin to see God Bless America become a national anthem. But he is anxious to keep it out of hotspots. To date he hasn't been very successful in this regard. Blatant Harry Richman has used it at Ben Marden's Riviera on the Hudson, many another has crooned it in similar clubs. He has also been unsuccessful in preventing translators from rendering it in alien tongues. A chapter of the Bund attempted unsuccessfully to adopt it as its official tune, but last month in Rochester, Wis. 40,000 U. S.-loving German-Americans celebrated German...