Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with Radcliffe's new lines, we should have this Spring: a variety of colors--brash, bright, and buoyant in skirts, deep tones or dainty pastels in dresses; a similar variety in skirts--from the Guatemalan to the Indian print to the broomstick skirt; as for blouses, nothing much can change there anyway. And we've even heard of a lipstick called Volupte...
...weekly teas on Thursday, where Mrs. Perkins entertains with the Master. She presides over the teapot and can tell a seldom-seen guest that she has forgotten his name in a most delightful way. The only person ever to get the better of Mrs. Perkins was the brash Midwestern sophomore who came to tea on a bet and demanded his with lemon and cream and five sugars...
...easy," said the brash medical student, "the pins go through his skin a bit, and into his flesh, but you notice how fat he is, don't you, and how loose his skin is? Well, that means the pins don't hurt nearly so much as you think they...
During those bloody, brawling years, Reuther collected two bad beatings and a crippled right arm, the result of an attempted assassination by shotgun. He also developed his talent for bare-knuckle politics, a shrewd publicity sense, and a reputation for brash, effective repartee. (Two weeks ago, when President-elect Eisenhower informed C.I.O. leaders that as a boy he had put in many a twelve-hour workday, Reuther was ready with a quick comeback. "General," said he, "you should have joined the union...
...Common's egregious record of assaults and hold ups means anything, and to the victims it certainly does, then the police are wrong. For example, only recently two brash gunmen halted and robbed a freshman. To the Radcliffe girl the Common is a short-cut between the Square and the regions beyond, but at night she wants little part of the vast expanses of darkness between the twinkle of a few overhead lights. They only other route is the Avenue--the long...