Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Saroyan is 29. When he was 26, a book of brash short stories (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze) won him the reputation of most terrible literary infant of the year. Since then William Saroyan has been increasingly a problem child. Critics and readers alike have been impressed by his audacity, displeased by his bounding ego. His coldest dispraisers admit that he sometimes blurts out a suggestive truth; his warmest admirers wish occasionally that he would not shout so loud. Last week Saroyan's fourth book, Little Children, well illustrated his inclusive vices and his eclectic...
...several young golfers returning from last month's Ryder Cup matches in England (TIME, July 12) disregarded both rules. Loudest in their disparagement of both the Ryder Cup matches which Great Britain lost and the British Open Championship at Carnoustie which England's Henry Cotton won, were brash young...
...believe a murder suspect's alibi by asking him, "What is your occupation?" "Professional pickpocket." "How long have you been a pickpocket?" "Twenty-four years." "If you are acquitted of this murder charge what will your occupation be in the future?" "Pickpocket." The jury, overwhelmed by such brash honesty, believed and acquitted...
Said Long Jim Barnes after winning the event, 295 to 302 for brash young Jimmy Hines: "From here on, I'm going to leave the tournaments to the young fellows...
Danny (Montgomery), brash young page boy at an English inn, turns up in the tidy cottage where Mrs. Bramson (Dame May Whitty) lives with her niece Olivia (Rosalind Russell) the day the police are combing the woods for the body of a woman who has mysteriously disappeared. Mrs. Bramson, a doddering hypochondriac, has sent for Danny to rebuke him for misbehavior with her maidservant, but before he leaves, his aggressive understanding of her symptoms induces her to hire him as a male nurse and companion. When Danny moves in, the most noteworthy item in his luggage is an old-fashioned...