Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret Missions is sure to set the blue-water admirals aboil, and may even raise the temperature, with doubtless wholesome results, in O.N.I.'s offices (once described by the late Colonel John W. Thomason Jr., U.S.M.C., as "a haven for the ignorant and well-connected")-If at times brash, energetic Author Zacharias seems on the verge of confessing that he is the only U.S. Navy officer who knew what World War II was about, his general complaints about barnacled gold-braid thinking are all too probably justified. Whatever naval pundits may make of his claims and conclusions, lay readers...
...other nights last week New Yorkers could hear brilliant, brash Lenny Bernstein's New York City Symphony playing the new music that the older conductors ignore. They crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place...
...will come when Boreas will be in brash and brazen bluster. Against that day, we would commend to all lectures who occupy the nine-to-ten hour a thawing out period for fingers with small warmth of coursing blood in them...
...because of his 22 months Pacific service as a noncombatant Medical Corps sergeant and chaplain's assistant, the Ayres face and screen personality have undergone a startling change. With little remaining resemblance to the confused kid of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), or even to brash young Dr. Kildare, Actor Ayres now looks and acts every one of his 37 years...
...built 75 theaters for B. & K. in the next six years, found his way to Hollywood. Paramount was then planning a $15 million studio, and firms from all over the country were bidding on it. Brash young Bill, who had always been fascinated by big jobs-the more complicated the better -sauntered in and asked: "Do you know what you want?" Said Paramount...