Word: brash
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Many an alarmed adult considers Youth brash, bad-mannered, ignorant and Red. Some even think that Youth is organized like a labor union, that Youth is a Movement. Last week grown-ups who think these things were able to get themselves into quite a stew over the goings-on of the biggest and most conglomerate of youth organizations, the American Youth Congress. Hitchhiking, riding jalopies, trains, busses, 482 delegates, black & white, representing 299 local and national groups, assembled in College Camp, Wis. for A. Y. C.'s sixth annual convention...
...anyone brash enough to accuse corpulent, complacent Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of diddling & dawdling in getting the Dominion on a war footing, he can truthfully crack back that Canada has just fought out on that issue an election which his Government won by a landslide (TIME, April 8). That, however, was before the Nazis crashed through Flanders, crushed France. Last week the hottest issue in the Dominion was again Government war diddling & dawdling. Only wartime censorship averted open scandal. Items...
...World's Fair. With five gardenias in her black curls, Philippa gave two free concerts in a little theatre. She rattled off classics, played some of the 63 pieces she has made up since she was four: The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig, Manhattan Silhouettes. Self-confident but not brash, Philippa explained her Cockroach Ballet...
Given a greater reception than even Wellington had had, vindicated as Queen in a summer-long session of the House of Lords, brash Caroline pushed her triumph too far. Forbidden to attend the Coronation, she tried to enter Westminster Abbey and was hooted by the crowd. Broken in spirit, perhaps understanding at last what a clown she had appeared for years, she failed rapidly. When news of Napoleon's death on St. Helena reached England, a satellite informed the King: "Sir, your greatest enemy is dead!" "Is she, by God?" cried Prinney, slapping his thigh...
...evening afloat on the Potomac. He played with his stamps, "did some think ing." He called in the civilians and officers who assist him in running the Navy and Army: Secretaries Edison (due to go soon) and Woodring (long overdue to go); Assistant Secretary of War Johnson (whose brash, abrasive voice crying in the wilderness for men & arms last year was too loud for his own, the Army's and the country's comfort); Chief of Naval Operations Harold R. Stark, Chief of Staff...