Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwonted characters moved within President Roosevelt's orbit last week- a hard-bitten former Rum Row sea captain and a brash, lanky senior at the University of North Carolina...
...cook makes a contribution to the broth. Playwright Abbott provides a sound book (least brilliant part of the show) ; Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This Can't Be Love, Sing for Your Supper...
Cinema producers, as a class, rightly or wrongly have the reputation of being uncultured, brash and boorish. On the theory that this reputation is a liability, the producers agreed that one means of combatting anti-Semitism would be to render themselves less vulnerable to unfavorable publicity, by abstaining from café society, ostentatious gambling for large stakes, misconduct with "Aryan" actresses. When cinema morals were under fire in 1922, the Hays Organization was given the job of raising the standards of personal behavior among cinema performers. Confronted with the problem of their own behavior, producers proposed to establish an organization...
Although KQV ceased broadcasting out-of-town games early in May, its continued airing of home games forced the ball club last month to lift its ban and allow to its sponsors the games KQV was pirating. In Federal district court, KQV, still brash, explained that it had rented space in a building overlooking the ball park, argued that it had a perfect right to broadcast what it saw from its own property. Promptly the Pirates raised a canvas screen to shut off KQV's knothole. To plug the knothole tight, last week Judge F. P. Schoonmaker ruled that...
...Bersaglieri are famed for their ability to move for hours at a steady trot. However, no nimble-footed sharpshooter was brash enough to forge ahead and when the startled populace at Faenza rushed into the streets to welcome Il Duce, he was still in the lead. Congratulating the Bersaglieri on their condition, he gave their commander 3,000 lire ($157) to buy them special mess kits...