Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four quarters of the globe in the past ten years, but until last week no nation had formally declared war since the League of Nations was founded. Paraguay, which has been fighting Bolivia in the steaming sponge of the Gran Chaco jungle for eleven months, took the brash step. A few hours after Bolivia had formally rejected the peace overtures of neighboring Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, pudgy President Eirebio Ayala of Paraguay issued a proclamation...
...dialog for The Mind-Reader, written by the late Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord, is a good example of the reportorial comedy-melodrama school, but the brash antics of Allen Jenkins are the most amusing thing about the picture. He takes money from both his employers for keeping their doings secret from each other, gives a fellow chauffeur $5 for information which Chandra can resell...
...befits the confusion between Brent's romantic interest in the heroine and his thoroughly ungallant professional curiosity. What makes The Keyhole acceptable entertainment is the charm of Kay Francis' acting, good settings by Anton Grot and a few amusing sequences in which Allen Jenkins, as a brash and dipsomaniac assistant detective, pursues a mercenary blonde (Glenda Farrell) under the delusion that she is an heiress...
...before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb esthete; the daughter married and divorced a Prince, adopted a swami; the youngest son seduced a countergirl, grew so brash in his manners that Daniel Pardway had to order him away. All this is the more painful because it is Daniel Pardway's ambition to leave the Bazaar to his offspring. The news that his general manager has bought up shares in the Bazaar which were presented...
...morning they watched precious sacks of coal drop down a crevice, hover a moment on the brash ice, then sink into the Antarctic...