Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yanks who ever appeared at Oxford, Howard E. Shuman of Morrison, Ill. seemed just about the Yankiest. The son of a county farm agent, Shuman was a brash, bright 25-year-old, who had earned one B.A. in economics at the University of Illinois and another at Michigan before he got a Rotary International Fellowship to New College, Oxford. Once at Oxford, he seemed determined to set fire to the Thames (which Oxonians know as two branches, the Isis and the Cherwell). One of the first things he did was to join the Oxford Union...
Meet Danny Wilson (Universal-International) pictures the rise of a brash but likable young crooner to the special fame that only bobbysoxers can bestow. Apart from romantic and melodramatic trimmings that it borrows elsewhere, the story cribs so freely from the career and personality of Frank Sinatra that fans may expect Ava Gardner to pop up in the last reel. What sharpens the illusion is the playing of Crooner Danny Wilson by Crooner Sinatra himself...
Operating under such handicaps of plot, but with the help of some amusing dialogue, Nightclub Comic Danny Thomas puts remarkable warmth into a portrait of Kahn. The songwriter is pictured as an earnest craftsman of simple tastes, shy beneath a brash surface, who needed, resented and forgave his wife's constant efforts to push him forward. Actor Thomas' performance won him a four-year Warner contract before the picture's release...
When he became president of the Southern Railway System 14 years ago, Ernest Eden Norris set a goal for himself: humanize the railroad. A longtime railroader who got his start as a telegrapher, Norris had a brash air about him, a funny story for every occasion and a firm belief in the Southern's slogan: "Look ahead-look South!" But the Southern needed more than humanizing; it was deep in debt and losing money fast. Norris decided to fix that...
THOSE WHO know Groucho best insist that beneath his brash exterior lies a shy, thoughtful and kindhearted...