Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pennies and shillings to send him to London's Central Labor College. For the first time, Bevan saw the world beyond the Welsh hills. He loved it. He plunged into a crowd of young people who had read, who could talk. They were fascinated by his exuberance, his brash charm, his wit. Bloomsbury apartments, Chelsea studios and Mayfair drawing rooms reverberated with the laughter which came from him in torrents as he threw back his massive head. But he remained true to Tredegar; he nourished his hatreds...
...quite the way some of her Oklahoma City friends recall it. Pearl, as they unfeelingly refer to her, did not come to Oklahoma until 1906, they say, when she was a full-blown, dark-haired woman of 25. Her father, William B. Skirvin, was a farm-implement salesman, a brash, stubby little cockerel of a man, who left Sturgis, Mich, and headed for the thriving Southwest. Like many another boomer, he set up in real estate in Galveston, Tex., then made a killing around Alta Loma, 18 miles north. Oldtimers are still bitter about that. Wrote...
High Hat. When Fred Levy, a brash young securities salesman, took over Blum's in 1934 (he had married a granddaughter of the late Simon Blum, the founder), the company was $26,000 in debt, and facing bankruptcy. The first thing Levy did was phone his customers and ask: "What's wrong with Blum's?" They told him Blum's had been turning out the same old candy since Simon Blum set up shop in 1892, and they were tired...
...last month, Freddie's column casually mentioned an obscure and unappetizing Los Angeles weekly called Hollywood Nite Life. It was nothing but a "brash, often spiteful publication," he wrote, and its swart and droopy-lidded publisher, one Jimmy Tarantino, struck him as a man who liked to toot his own horn...
...Knife" will probably get some needed whetting during the next two weeks and possibly the deletion of some superflous Odetean spokesmen. It is good Odets now, brash, excessive, spelling out hell for Hollywood in neon...