Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commentator for Philadelphia's Station WCAU when he went to Hopewell, N. J. in March 1932 to broadcast descriptions of the frantic search for the Lindbergh baby's kidnapper. Four years later, with the kidnapper awaiting death at Trenton (see p. 20), Broadcaster Boake Carter and his brash news comments had grown to be something of a national institution...
John D. Adams, of West Brattlebore, Vt.; Frederick S. Armstrong, Jr., of Weymouth, Mass.; Sidney R. Ballon, of Concord, Mass.; Spenser M. Beresford, of Philadelphia, Pa.; John H. Brash, of Norfolk, Neb.; Joseph J. Buckley, of Somerville, Mass.; Joseph W. Chapman, of Leadville, Colo,; Paul T. Choate, of Groton, Mass.; Warrick E. Elrod, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga.; Richard R. Evans, of Berlin, Mass.; Richard W. Galbraith, Jr., of Exeter, N. H.; Stephen S. Gracewski, of Thompsonville, Conn.; Robert L. Green, Jr., of Baltimore...
...took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife Sophie and his pretty 19-year-old Daughter Carmelia tended a six-acre truck farm behind the house, sold the produce to passing motorists. Now & then Crempa from his window nourished a gun at brash deputy sheriffs. Scotch Plains looked on Crempa as a hero, the impotent sheriff as a buffoon. Last week Sheriff C. Wesley Collins was ready for strong measures...
...Mount Prospect, Ill., four brash bank bandits roared up to the Mount Prospect State Bank waving a machine gun, ran toward the door, read the sign on the doorhandle, "Out to lunch," raced back to their car and roared away...
...dead herring out of a bag and waved it at his opponents. The author of a book called Harold's Adventures, Harold Hales likes to tell his friends that he is the original of Arnold Bennett's The Card, known also as "Denry the Audacious," a brash young man who in two Bennett novels made his way by his wits. But beyond all this Harold Hales wanted some foolproof device to make Posterity remember him with respect. Forty years ago he found...