Word: brash
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...Philadelphia veterans) sounded good, but some critics reserved judgment. Last week, back from the tour, Dr. Stokowski with the Youth Orchestra put on a show in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall itself and put their reservations to rout. Concertgoers were somewhat startled to see the orchestra framed in a brash, blue acoustical shell, lit by brash, blue lamps...
...their 21-engagement South American tour, Conductor Stokowski's youths had downed a widespread impression that their brash, inexperienced good will would "insult" musically sophisticated South Americans. The orchestra played to full houses nearly everywhere. The tour was no picnic for the players, as most of their spare time was spent rehearsing. Stokowski, who took no salary for the tour, complained that enthusiastic South Americans had mobbed him for souvenirs-coat buttons, handkerchiefs, gloves. Only time he lost the Stokowski temper was in Montevideo, where the program carried a biography stating the old libel that his real name...
...Labor and the New Deal. Mrs. Edington rejects a $100,000 cinema offer, strides firmly through her world of clubs and the Women's Chamber of Commerce, creates a fine job for herself at the age of 60. Mild Mrs. Lee teaches bridge to the new-rich. Brash young Lucy resolves to have a career before marriage, teaches tennis, finds fear of a Chinatown plot leading her into the arms of her patient suitor. Though The House of Lee will scarcely be immortal, Gertrude Atherton herself seems to have a pretty good chance...
...high-crowned black hat. With easy friendliness he responded to the welcome, stopping often to chat and joke with the villagers and soldiers. Good-humoredly he posed for cameramen, tinkering with a U. S.-made tommy gun (see cut), chewing on a big cigar. Playfully he watched a brash eleven-year-old click his toy pistol at him, laughed...
...National Defense Ministries, and for leading the suppression of the bandit Cedillo two years ago was given the highest possible Army rank, divisional general. Stout, with piano legs and sofa shoulders, of medium height, he was shy until his certainty that he would win the campaign made him brash. His extracurricular passion is polo. His string of ponies has traveled all the way to Long Island...