Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire to settle old scores gave a crusading fervor last week to the first Ed Wynn Show (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). With blood in his eye, veteran Comic Wynn was out to challenge the TV popularity of brash Milton Berle. Wynn's feelings for Berle, whom he can scarcely bring himself to mention by name, range from lofty superiority ("I've yet to see something original from that man") to pitying scorn ("He'll be the D.W. Griffith of TV-nobody will give him a job in a couple of years...
...some extent, the students met the expectation. Sometimes they were loud ties and talked in loud brash tones about how cheap everything was in Europe but how ridiculous the foreign ways of doing things were and how they would love to get back to good old New York for a real hamburger...
...Tishomingo Blues" is a slow number for a smooth Davison-Archey coup; "Sensation" a quickstep for Baby Dodds' imaginative drums. Those who like Chippie Hill's brash singing will clap their hands for joy when they play "Baby Won't You Please Come Home," for the venerable lady appears here for one side...
...Maverick. Last week David Dubinsky climbed on a train and headed for the A.F.L. Executive Council meeting in Toronto. As usual, A.F.L. elders received him warily. At 57, Dubinsky is a brash youth and a maverick among the chieftains of the council, who clung to isolationism as long as they dared, who had backed reluctantly into political action and who once regarded unemployment insurance as dangerously socialistic...
...many Lake County white men still muttered darkly. The next time, said one of their leaders, husky, brash Flowers Cockcroft, "We'll clean out every Negro section in south Lake County...