Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herman Eugene Talmadge, 43, segregationist and isolationist, takes the seat of one of the U.S.'s great senatorial statesmen, aging (78) and respected Walter George. To outward appearances, Herman has progressed not only beyond his father's viciousness and venom but beyond the uncertainties that haunted the brash youth who seized the governorship in Atlanta that rainy night nearly ten years ago. Smooth and suave as an actor, Herman in his "tel-lee-vision" (as he calls it) appearances has convinced Georgians "that a Talmadge doesn't have horns and a tail, and that he wears shoes...
Minister Eden-Christ Church men at that, should countenance "this thing." He added darkly: "Duncan Sandys, brash, hard-faced, inhuman man that he is, was doubtless able to push it through because the Cabinet was exhausted by the Suez crisis...
...Australian for hecklers). Once, after delivering a speech in a 103° fever, he asked the Duke of Gloucester: "Sir, what did I talk about?" His Royal Highness replied: "My dear boy, I don't know, but it was damned good." After Menzies took office in 1939, a brash reporter asked: "I suppose you'll consult the powerful interests who control you before you choose your Cabinet?" Said Menzies: "Naturally. But, young man, please keep my wife's name out of this." During weighty Commonwealth talks in London in 1952 on how to shore up the pound...
...Newport. There, frosty and imperious Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) delicately dithers over the three men in her life: her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby), an aristocratic jazz devotee who insists on calling her "Sam"; her husband-to-be, George Kittredge (John Lund), a stuffy fellow; and brash Reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), who is on hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down to Millionaire Crosby and Reporter Sinatra. Grace gets tight and thaws visibly. She dives into a swimming pool fully clad, and is fished...
...took up chess and bird watching. Last year the team showed some improvement, but the old man had had enough. He resigned, became an offstage adviser, and new men came in to finish the job. Joe L. Brown, 37, son of Comedian Joe E. Brown, became general manager, and brash Bobby Bragan, 37, came from Hollywood to manage the team on the field. Both were Rickey's selections...