Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brash Joseph Coughlin, 49, 204 lb., got to be a small-talk columnist a few years before Walter Winchell. At 24, Roundy was pushing a lawnmower in Madison's Brittingham Park (he had quit school in the fifth grade, had been a dynamite hauler, telephone repairer, sledge-hammerer, semi-pro baseball pitcher). He started penciling names and items he heard around the park's tennis courts and bathing beach, sold them as a weekly sports column to the Capital Times. The technique and Roundy's idiom have not changed a bit in 25 years. The State Journal...
Even conservative observers wondered whether the week might not have brought an historic turning point of World War II. No Allied airman was so brash as to say the Luftwaffe was not strong enough to go up to fight. Weather, weariness and disorganization from the earlier battles- any or all of these might have influenced the Nazi fighter command's decision...
Private Marion Hargrove (Robert Walker) is typical of the half-grown, brash, good-natured boys whom the vast drafts of World War II have passed between the Army's shaping rollers. How to standardize such a kid into a soldier so disturbs Private Hargrove's captain that after one look at him the officer thinks of transferring to the Navy. In the long run Hargrove and his equally unmilitary comrades learn their trade. But the film devotes most of its time to the comic aspects of their training (mostly polishing garbage cans) and their vestigial private life...
...University of Chicago, where he teaches in the Law School, Professor Mortimer J. Adler is known to older and possibly somewhat envious teachers as the "professor of the blue sky." An intellectually wily, bland, brash and confident man, he has married scholarship to intellectual impertinence with amusing and sometimes instructive results. His chief conviction is that if one knows how to think, one can think about anything. Four years ago Professor Adler was busy telling the U.S. public the "rules" of reading in a best-seller (TIME, March 18, 1940) which he gaily titled How to Read a Book...
Insult Adorable. Breneman, a fast-breaking, brash, unromantic character, wanders about among his audience with a microphone and asks personal questions: "Where were you born?" "How old are you?", etc. He does this with an air of detachment-yawns, looks bored, calls women by their first names, mispronounces their last names, scoffs at their provincialism (most of them are from small towns). They seem to like it. Women who cannot be present write him 1,000 to 1,500 letters a day. Some begin: "Tom, my precious...