Word: brash
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...headlong clatter of A Number of Things is occasionally slowed by pages of travel-book writing, and the jokes are sometimes tasteless as well as brash. Sir Manfred Schulz, for instance, and his "Vot's dat?" wife seem as xenophobic as anything in Saki's short stories. But Author Tracy also shares with Saki a grand and grisly way with a funny anecdote, as when a decorous lawn party belatedly realizes that the West Indian gardener who lopes by is carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted...
...journalist, and in his day he was a fairly flamboyant one. In a press era increasingly dominated by blue serge businessman, he has been one of journalism's most vivid personalities. His clothes looked as though they had been cut from a bolt of the rainbow. Brash and profane, he had enough gall to be thrice divided...
...brash and bushy-haired Kentuckian named H. Keith Williams breezed into Dallas two years ago, determined to break into the Big Rich. Williams, 23, son of a prosperous Louisville furniture manufacturer, announced to all who would listen that he was going into the oil business. True, he had only a $1,200 stake, but that did not faze him. Said he: "I've had experience in road construction and furniture manufacturing, and there's a lot in common between those two and oil. They all use heavy machinery." That seemed to satisfy investors anxious to get in with...
...last 13 years of his life, Mayakovsky performed Homeric feats for the revolution. He worked for party newspapers, drew more than 3,000 revolutionary posters for which he wrote flaming exhortations in prose and poetry. He wrote a brash poem inviting the Eiffel Tower to leave its decadent city and return with him to Moscow. He visited the U.S. in 1925 and dutifully reported that it was a guardian of bigotry, cents and bacon " But as time went on, he found more and more to irritate him at home, saw with growing disgust the commissars making the rules for poets...
...floods are seasonal, the political troubles getting to be. Fortnight ago a brash young paratroop captain named Kong Le captured Vientiane in a predawn raid with a battalion of troops who were angry at not getting paid for several months (TIME, Aug. 22). Kong Le's coup toppled a pro-Western Cabinet, and to form a new government the captain turned to neutralist, three-time Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma, 58. Prince Souvanna put together a Cabinet that included the chief of Laos' primitive Meo tribesmen as Minister of Information. But last week he met a cold shoulder from...