Word: brashly
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Before the Tenth Army (under General MacArthur's command) on the island of Okinawa (supposedly under Admiral Nimitz' command), Lieut. General James H. Doolittle of the Eighth Air Force (under General Spaatz's command) made a brash speech. He said the naming of a single, overall commander for ground, sea & air forces in the Pacific was essential for victory over Japan. The confused command situation surrounding Doolittle gave his remarks added point...
...Harvard, into Yale. So young Laski went on to Harvard, where he was liked no better. When the brash Briton spoke up for the cops in Boston's 1920 police strike, the Harvard Lampoon devoted an entire issue to an exposé of "this propagandist in our midst." The flaming red cover showed Laski as a socialist saint (see cut). A cartoon showed the socialist Day of Judgment with Professor Laski surrounded by human freaks, casting better-dressed citizens (Harvard men, no doubt) into outer darkness...
...murders, betrayed maidens, prehistoric monsters and the evils of vivisection, are going to get more herbs with their eggs. A new publisher is in the kitchen. He is 63-year-old Walter Howey, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, and the real-life model of Front Page's brash, blustery managing editor...
When brisk, brash Larry MacPhail took over the New York Yankees last winter, newshawks asked: "How will McCarthy feel?" Last week Joe McCarthy felt sick...
This trumpet-tooter is Romy Gosz (pronounced gauze), self-styled "Polka King." He is pictured serenading three newly married couples at a Bluestone Park, Wis. dance last week as 1,357 polka-addicts look on. The week was nothing special for brash, 36-year-old Romy Gosz, who has made some 35 records for Columbia and Decca, and turned down various offers from bigtime bands. He prefers to stick with his own six-piece group ("five men and one musician") and his regular circuit of small Wisconsin towns. Six nights a week he plays hot, fast and loud for dances...