Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tammany Hall connection . . . "double-faced political trickery . . . brazen effrontery . . . shameless betrayal . . . allied grafting groups . . . plunder and pillage...
Speech. Just prior to moving from its oldtime site downtown to a temporary site at 2 Park Avenue (directly opposite the Prohibition Administrator's headquarters), Tammany Hall heard an address from its most distinguished son. The country heard it, too. The son was quite brazen about it and said...
...brazen and shameless...
Where wealth is spent with decorous gorgeousness, there the Edward F. Huttons are-in Manhattan on Long Island, in the Adirondacks, at Palm Beach. The Palm Beach estate is so magnificent that the Huttons use wiles to keep intruders out. A sentry guards the gate. Once a brazen rich woman whom Mrs. Hutton refused to receive applied for a maid's job in the mansion. As inept as indelicate, she was quickly discovered. A private tunnel runs from the Hutton grounds to the famed Bath and Tennis Club of Palm Beach. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hutton like to entertain...
...such creatures indeed exist, they are certainly mere "women" and should have no place in a magazine for the home, school and family, such as TIME. "Brazen" is the good old fashioned adjective which I would unhesitatingly apply to the picture of the "Dolly" or Deutsch sisters with which you illustrate the story to which I object. No doubt you are right that they seem "worth while" to old King Christian of Denmark, but why give such "women" any place in TIME...