Word: brash
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...worst picture Chaplin ever made. But even in a foreign language and a dub picture, Cantinflas is no ordinary clown. A voluble, ingenuous ragamuffin who always wears the same hardly decent costume (woolen undershirt and baggy pants hitched around his lower hips with a rope), he cuts a brash but appealing figure, shows a subtle taste in slapstick...
...seemed capable of great things. William Lyon Phelps led the reviewers' chorus in praising his first novel, Young Glory. Hurd was perplexed between the rich advances offered him by Publisher H. H. Ramsay and more modest prospects which would make serious writing possible. Ramsay's brash, glittering daughter Barbara attracted him. When she turned him down, he ran to his second cousin Mary for comfort, mistook his infantilism for love, deceived Mary to boot. He married Barbara. Mary moved into spinsterhood, scientific work and philanthropy, became in the end an impressive woman...
...Porter lyrics are clever, but lack the old high-style smartness of Let's Do It and You're the Top. If this means loss of power, it also suggests change of purpose: Composer Porter is gearing his tunes for Broadway productions and tailoring them for the brash Merman...
...finally finished three years' work, progressed to Northwestern University to study dentistry. When graduation neared in 1941, Nome's only physician, Dr. Thomas Morcam, arrived at Northwestern to interest a dentist in Nome's teeth. Several volunteered, but Kennedy got the job because of his eagerness, brash temperament, lack of family ties, and a perforated eardrum which the Army found distasteful...
...credit goes to Art Tilt, who has a seventh sense for what truckmen will buy, has manufactured motor vehicles longer than anyone else except Henry Ford. Art started Diamond T (Diamond for quality; T for Tilt) 38 years ago in the rear of a one-story Chicago garage. Brash and bossy, Art ignored most truckmaker traditions, did whatever he wanted to. It worked. Before World War I Diamond T had a national reputation; then its military trucks gave it an international reputation...