Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Love & Hate. Close associates say that Godfrey's contrariness is his outstanding characteristic. His Girl Friday, Margaret ("Mug") Richardson, says: "Arthur's contradictions are the only thing close to talent he's got." He is confusingly shy one minute and brash the next, sentimental and savage, generous and stingy, as quick to unreasoning affection as unreasoning dislike. Said one bruised ex-friend: "Arthur either starts off with great loves and then hates people, or with great hates and then loves them." He also has a sense of proportion that is all his own. The man who wept...
Ohio's solid, slow-moving Representative Clarence Brown did what some of his colleagues had been itching to do: he marched the Democrats' brash young Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. off to the woodshed. What got Brown's Republican dander up was Junior's charge that Brown had reneged on a pledge to support the controversial FEPC bill (TIME, Feb. 6). There had been no such pledge, said Brown, as Mr. Roosevelt might have known if he spent more time on the job and less time gallivanting around Manhattan...
...center from Lake Street to State Street, its residential district from the South Shore to the North; the hotel man who built the first two Palmer Houses* and, in the second, set a style by paving its barbershop with silver dollars. His wife brought big-time Society to gawky, brash Chicago...
...than when he first announced himself a genius, somewhat heavier around his literary middle, but still wildly infatuated with the one subject that has always held his interest: himself. This time he opens a collection of eleven fair-to-Saroyan stories with a 26-page introduction which is so brash that it finally worries the reader into amusement...
Where the Riviera is loud and brash, its less renowned rival Biarritz is reserved and circumspect. Drowsing in the winter sun, discreet Biarritz has its full share of ménages à trois, lurid and perverted personalities, titled lovers and mistresses of high & low degree. But scandal, however it flourishes behind the hedges that screen the big villas, is never to be flaunted in the swank drinking places. Thus it has been ever since the days of Britain's Edward VII, who set the tone for Biarritz and usually remembered to draw the blinds...