Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Embree's listeners were not amused when he told them the South had no university that approached the scholarly eminence of Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, California, Yale or any of a score of institutions in the North and West. They were shocked when brash Mr. Embree asserted that today the South is producing not only inferior scholars and gentlemen but indifferent judges of whiskey. Said he: "When the concepts of this phrase were widely realized in the lives of her sons, the South bristled with distinction. In so far as these ideals have fallen into desuetude, the South has drifted...
...that GHQ A. F. could assemble a scattered force at unfamiliar airports within a minimum of time. Most spectacular feat in this phase was the transcontinental movement of 945 men. 42 planes, by Brigadier General Delos C. Emmons' First Wing, normally based at March and Hamilton Fields, Calif. Brash, toughly amiable General Emmons, whom many of his comrades look upon as a likely successor to Commanding General Andrews when the latter retires, transformed 16 Douglas bombers into transports, shuttled them and their pilots as many as eight times across the continent, based his entire force at New Haven. Conn...
...Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America, electric eels have six electricity-generating organs extending lengthwise through their tails, which make up four-fifths of the eel's body. If a man or animal touches an electric eel, he will be mildly shocked. But if he were brash enough to grab both the eel's head and tail at the same time, he might get a 500-volt charge. These electric eels, which grow to 8 ft., 50 lb., swim about in stagnant pools, paralyze small fish by discharging electricity, can keep their prey unconscious for several hours...
This breezy solution of an economic riddle which has puzzled the world's ablest savants for the last decade was proffered last week in Middletown, Ohio by 30-year-old James Roosevelt. If several of the Assistant President's statements seemed a trifle brash, the last at least was indisputable. So many people still could not believe that young Mr. Roosevelt's father's current $5,000,000,000 pump-priming program would promptly end the current Depression that, even though Son Roosevelt's arguments were being stated less ingenuously by James A. Farley, Henry...
...white ducks. Chief amusement centres in Henry Aldrich (Ezra Stone), a cross between Penrod and Willie Baxter, who attends classes mainly in the principal's office. With a talent for head-on collisions, always ingenious, never crafty, always there with an answer, never with the right one, brash, bouncing, rumpled, rattled, rueful by turns, Henry grows into that rare thing on the stage-a person...