Word: brash
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...great, he asks, is the responsibility of each man for the welfare of his fellows? The answer to this overwhelming question is a dramatized version of the biblical Golden Rule, set as a costume piece during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The protagonist of the play is a brash but cowardly deserter from the Hungarian army who takes refuge in the home of his former mother-in-law. That lady, a countess and sort of philosophical fairy godmother, teaches him what he should have learned in Sunday school and provides him with a brand new backbone...
Sammy thinks he used to be a pretty brash fellow. "You know," he says. "I'd fluff [i.e., insult] somebody, even a good friend, and then think. 'Well, I'll make it up to him some day.' Then I had the accident, and I found I had friends...
...doing this just for circulation, remember Judas.' Well, it did start that way. But after three days, my motives had grown quite complex-until now I think only God can sort them out. We've managed to project God and Jesus Christ in a brash, vulgar tabloid. I think we've done a lot of good...
Married. Betty Hutton (real name: Betty June Thornburg), 34, brash, bouncy Hollywood dancer-songstress (The Greatest Show on Earth); and Alan Livingston, 38, Capitol Records vice president; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
...brash British team, togged out in a wild assortment of jumpers and striped mufflers, did their best to act like casual beginners. "Now see here," said one bobber to another as they dashed down the chute, "do you jump in first...