Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court had for the second time refused to review their appeal from a conviction of conspiracy to defraud a bank in Buncombe County, N. C. Free under bond, the Leas were ordered rounded up to serve jail sentences. Onetime U. S. Senator, close associate of brash Banker Rogers Clark Caldwell, Col. Lea tried to kidnap the Kaiser as a Christmas present for Woodrow Wilson...
...show's organizer was Miss Cati Mount, 24, brash enfante terrible of Chicago's art world. A graduate of the Art Institute, she runs the Little Gallery in the old Auditorium Building. Last week she sat under a yellow umbrella, leaning on a cedar cane, showing red toenails through her pointed sandals, and snappily ran the show...
...supremacy was solemnly proclaimed by the Master, in spite of the fact that the cup has not yet been raced for. But the crew seems to have enthusiasm as well as a brand-new coach, so that the venerable Lowell-Dunster rivalry is likely to be invaded by a brash newcomer...
...fact was less certain (TIME, June 29). Last week there was almost no doubt. Dr. James Chadwick of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, brightest spot of British science, declared for the existence of neutrons. Ernest Baron Rutherford, director of the Cavendish Laboratory, confirmed the investigation. And no brash statements ever come from Professor Rutherford, 1908 Nobel Laureate, the man who established the existence and nature of radioactive transformations, the electrical structure of all matter, the nuclear structure of atoms...
...Europe to study in Paris and Berlin, armed with letters to four of the world's most potent men: Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. They gave his international, political, social notions a tremendous push. To them, he recalls, he was just a brash young American ? "a speck of dust." But Butler talked right up to them, made them the nucleus of his enormous collection of friendships, to which, as he grew older, he has added almost every person of national or international importance...