Word: brashly
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...weekly teas on Thursday, where Mrs. Perkins entertains with the Master. She presides over the teapot and can tell a seldom-seen guest that she has forgotten his name in a most delightful way. The only person ever to get the better of Mrs. Perkins was the brash Midwestern sophomore who came to tea on a bet and demanded his with lemon and cream and five sugars...
...easy," said the brash medical student, "the pins go through his skin a bit, and into his flesh, but you notice how fat he is, don't you, and how loose his skin is? Well, that means the pins don't hurt nearly so much as you think they...
During those bloody, brawling years, Reuther collected two bad beatings and a crippled right arm, the result of an attempted assassination by shotgun. He also developed his talent for bare-knuckle politics, a shrewd publicity sense, and a reputation for brash, effective repartee. (Two weeks ago, when President-elect Eisenhower informed C.I.O. leaders that as a boy he had put in many a twelve-hour workday, Reuther was ready with a quick comeback. "General," said he, "you should have joined the union...
...Common's egregious record of assaults and hold ups means anything, and to the victims it certainly does, then the police are wrong. For example, only recently two brash gunmen halted and robbed a freshman. To the Radcliffe girl the Common is a short-cut between the Square and the regions beyond, but at night she wants little part of the vast expanses of darkness between the twinkle of a few overhead lights. They only other route is the Avenue--the long...
...Providence, where the old Union Station is one of the city's biggest eyesores, Evening Bulletin Reporters James Doyle and John Quinn made a brash suggestion. A year ago they wrote a kidding column proposing that the New Haven Railroad move the station from the heart of the downtown section by tunneling under State House Hill and re-routing the main-line railroad tracks. Wrote Doyle and Quinn: "We are forced to omit little details [because] our engineering consultant is sweating out a Red Sox fight in the American League and has no time for trifles." The "Doyle-Quinn...