Word: brattish
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Thankfully, the blue-blood code dominating tennis is slowly fading. "Rude" players are still contemptuously labelled brattish, but there are many more brats than before--as well there should be, if being a brat means pointing out when the officials are fouling up great and exciting matches with incompetence. It is even all right, it seems to me, to get mad at an opponent; in other sports, this is called "psyching up" and encouraged, but in tennis it is called ungentlemanly. Those Americans who realize that a backboard is but three feet wide will never love the sport as long...
...library paste and red ink. Another greedy little girl ate them and told Mother, and Mother complained to the principal that Rona was a brat. Little Rona was then ten years of age. She has since more or less grown up into her tristful 30s and written a mildly brattish, mildly famous book called The Best of Everything (TIME, Sept. 15, 1958), which bore down rather heavily on a young girl's discovery that men leave much to be desired...
...call him Junior," growled the country's angriest columnist at a meeting of the Anti-Communist Christian Crusade in Tulsa. "I have to suit his brattish conniptions." He is "lacking in character, ability or loyalty." The invective was familiar, but the target was new. This time Hearst-man Westbrook Pegler was attacking neither a Roosevelt, nor a labor leader, nor Harry Truman. He was taking on his own boss, William Randolph Hearst...
...they appear wildly eccentric against the puritan drabness of Khrushchev's Russia, few such poets can compete in nonconformity with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Stalin's poet laureate. Mayakovsky was a brilliant, brattish libertine who alternated between slavish drivel in praise of Communism and biting satires against it. Sickened by repression and criticism, he committed suicide in 1930. Stalin astounded Party hacks by decreeing that he was Russia's "best and most talented" poet, adding ominously: "Indifference to his work and memory is a crime." Independent-minded young Russians think none the better of Mayakovsky for Stalin...
...English boys' school and is a picaresque, loosely jointed account of several old school chums as they lurch through a succession of army camps, prisons, hospitals and asylums. The characters are often almost the same as in Decline and Fall: for the wealthy Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde and her brattish son Peter, Auberon substitutes the wealthy Lady Julia Foxglove and her brattish son Martin; for the loutish Percy Clutterbuck there is the loutish Kenneth Stout; for the sycophantic Dr. Augustus Fagan there is the sycophantic Brother Aloysius. Even the scenes in The Saga are hauntingly familiar: a garden party that...