Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salem Jail, brash and blustering as ever, marched Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed roughneck Mayor of Newburyport, Mass., having served his two-month term for violating ordinances of the Newburyport town council (TIME, Sept 3 et seq.'). Newsmen surrounded him. After "bawling out one of them for a story he had not liked. His Honor joined his friends, the Newburyport fire chief and superintendent of streets, and drove away to get refreshments and see a football game...
...especially hot day, they left the boat in the sedges by the river and went to sit near a hayrick where it was shady. Alice, who was sometimes a little brash in her behavior, wanted someone to tell her a story. So Mr. Dodgson began it, while the sleepy children listened. "Alice," he said, "was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what...
...faint and reappear. Christopher Tietjens, who loves Valentine Wannop, watches his wife Sylvia practice unfaithfulness; at the end of 285 pages Mark Tietjens, brother to Christopher, dies of disease. Were it not doubly impertinent to offer advice to an author whose works are so obviously satisfying to himself, some brash but discerning critic might paraphrase one of Author Ford's titles, saying to him: "The purpose of writing is to express, not to conceal; let us have no more charades...
Clarence Walker Barren's Wall Street Journal, less brash in such business & financial matters than the Chicago paper, noted last week: "American banks are finding it profitable to place surplus funds in London, owing to higher level of money rates there, and such transfers of dollars into sterling have been a leading cause of firmness in the sterling rate this week. , Some American funds are also being placed in Germany, to take advantage of higher rates prevailing in Berlin...
...upbraided him. "Well, old man, you'd better get to like me," retorted the fresh kid, "because I'm going to be around a long time." Coming from a rookie, this was maddening. His name made old players froth, fume. But the manager approved. He signed the brash one for the season, and wisely. A sublime self-assurance, as any baseball players knows, is essential to one who would play the game...