Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mates always kidded young Jack Taylor. He was brash, he was illiterate, he could never keep a steady job. Yet he called himself an artist. A year ago, he was pushing a wheelbarrow on a building job in London's West End. The truck driver pointed at the nearby Redfern Gallery, and jeered at Jack: "You call yourself a painter. They buy paintings in that place...
...other Harvard magazines, one the brash but impressive creation of an undergraduate and the other the dull official publication of the College administration, had already been unsuccessful as vehicles of University news when the Bulletin began its try. It was formed in 1898 under editor Jerome Greene as the weekly publication of the Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates, a group whose purpose was "to increase alumni interest in Harvard athletics and, as a by-product, to interest promising athletes from the preparatory schools...
...refreshing to see Polio Fighter Salk on the cover of TIME [March 29], after a double dose of McCarthy and his brash young rogues, Cohn and Schine...
Minnesota's brash Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey jumped up, expounded his own tax views, and was quickly routed when Millikin said: "That is an Icarian syllogism." Humphrey, looking blankly toward the presiding officer: "Mr. President, that is too much for me." Millikin explained: "In other words, the Senator from Minnesota would pin wax wings on his own back in an attempt to fly. However, because of his unsure base, he would land in the ocean." Understanding dawned on Humphrey's face. Asked he: "Is not that just another way of saying I am all wet?" Millikin just smiled...
Against these obstacles Phil Silvers pits his jovial buffoonery. But his brash, rapid-fire humor entertains only in spurts, and then in the unsubtlest of ways. His best scene comes late in the picture, as he parodies a tenor at the burlesque while half-clad maidens stumble around in the background. No one else has much of a part, although some of vaudeville's oldest stand-bys have landed jobs in the supporting cast...