Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably Sturges's outstanding accomplishment in the picture is his work with Betty Hutton, so successful that the brash, bumptious bouncer becomes a light and joyous comedienne. Eddy Bracken is cut out for his role, and the two of them carry the picture, although Sturges has not neglected the minor roles...
...Rush Dew Holt, the brash "Boy Senator" of the '30s who plummeted from fame almost as fast as he rose to it and has since been marking time in the State Legislature, Democrats have a candidate who is attempting a political comeback at the tender age of 38. In Funkhouser ("just call me R.J."), Republicans have a millionaire businessman who has yet to hold a major political office. With onetime U.S. Senator Neely ineligible to succeed himself as Governor (he is running for a seat in the House), the two are campaigning fiercely toward primaries next week...
...House of Commons last week, Winston Churchill parried a thrust at his close association with Publisher Lord Beaverbrook (TIME, April 10). Socialistic Sir Richard Acland, Common Wealth Party leader, sharply asked if the rule which bars Cabinet Ministers from engaging in journalism had been suspended to favor the brash, busy Beaver and his London Daily Express. Said Churchill: "The proprietorship of newspapers has never been held to be journalism in the ordinary sense...
Some of the pressures are personal, and are remarkably similar to the irks of Washington. Brash, capable, erratic Lord Beaverbrook has come back fast in the P.M.'s esteem, is now very close to Mr. Churchill. It is no secret that Churchill. Beaverbrook and pervasive, ambitious Minister of Information Brendan Bracken are three big bugs-in-a-rug at No. 10 Downing Street. Too often to suit him, Eden has felt lately that high policy came down to him from this trio, and particularly from Beaverbrook. Last week some London correspondents, pondering Beaverbrook's comeback, guessed that...
Born. To Master Sergeant Ezra Stone, 26, radio's brash Henry Aldrich, and Sara Seegar Stone, 27; a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Josef Seegar...