Word: brashly
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...appetit, messieurs!" a brash young lieutenant of France wished his superiors at an officers' mess in Indo-China last week, "And may you all die with the last mouthful so that I may get a promotion...
When the student had completed his unappreciated task, Taft mounted the steps and, to the tune of The Beautiful Ohio, shook hands all around. Instantly brash placards erupted from the crowd, identifying one idea of what kind of cabinet Taft would choose; Mac-Arthur for Defense Secretary, Chiang-Kai-Shek for State Secretary, and so on. Taft, too busy charting his way through the confusion on the platform, ignored the suggestions...
...matters of party regularity, jerkily jumped to his feet, left the House without a word, and took the train to his Buckinghamshire home. But next day he ordered an emergency meeting of all 294 Labor M.P.s for this week, to consider the defiance of his leadership. In rebuttal, brash Nye Bevan demanded and got an emergency session of Labor's executive committee, to be held later in the week. Bevanites are outnumbered on the committee, 23 to 4, but Bevan seemed unconcerned...
...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...
...turn-of-the-century Paris, the studios of Montmartre were irresistible, so the Duchamp boys all ended up artists. Even sister Suzanne tagged along, tried her hand at brush and canvas. Last week a Manhattan exhibit of the four Duchamps gave a nostalgic glimpse of modern art's brash young cubist days, and brought the Duchamp family up to date...