Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right adjective for Chinese remained last week "peculiar." It was peculiar that entire Chinese armies should scuttle out of North China, abandoning it without resistance to a few strutting Japanese who had delivered a brash ultimatum (TIME, June 17). It was peculiar that batches of arriving Japanese troops should be waited on in Tientsin by dainty Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang...
Investigators had never heard of him and Henry Latham Doherty knew him only as a brash young gaspipe salesman when, in 1928, Frank Preston Parish founded Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. When newspaper editors looked at his smooth young face they dubbed him "The Boy Wizard of Finance" only to learn that he had been bankrupt two years before. Oil and gas men who took the trouble to inquire about his life found great gaps in the Parish career. He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails. He had set himself up in machinery business in Chicago...
...Emporia has long since learned to compromise. In excellent health last fortnight, Editor White issued the week-end edition of his newspaper with not one but 29 comics in a gaudy 16-page tabloid. Moreover, the entire news section was printed in tabloid to conform. It had taken a brash young salesman for United Feature Syndicate six months to change the White mind but now, reminded of his oldtime vow, Editor White was ready to say: "That was back when I believed in fairies. We might as well gather rosebuds while...
...Canada to presentation at Court. Flanked by a galaxy of decorative generals, the Bessboroughs standing on a dais received the curtsies of elite Canadian females as do Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace. In nine other Canadian Provinces subjects similarly kowtow to the local Lieutenant Governor. Only in Ontario does brash, newdealing Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn threaten: "Next time we are going to stop aping all this nonsense!" Next time for "Mitch" will come on Feb. 13 when he may or may not dare to have someone other than Lieutenant Governor Colonel the Honorable Herbert A. Bruce open the Provincial Legislature...
...game of naval ratios which must sooner or later be played, France and Italy may be expected to make bids quite as brash as Japan's. Last week an unsigned, informal but genteel agreement was believed to exist between Prime Minister MacDonald and President Roosevelt that neither the U. S. nor Great Britain will start any naval race against the other...