Word: brazen
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Coolidge was in the White House, gin was in the bathtub, and U.S. tabloid journalism was in its bawling, irresponsible infancy. Worst of all, more brazen even than the brassy era it covered, was Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's sexsational New York Evening Graphic. Quickly dubbed the 'PornoGraphic, the paper assaulted the town with scandal, reported what nobody else would dream of printing, invented what it could not report. Leading the assault from a desk littered with busts of Napoleon was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), lame martinet named Emile Henry Gauvreau, a Connecticut-born newsman of French...
Abrupt Departure. Outraged by the government's brazen persistence in illegality, mustachioed Enrico de Nicola, onetime (1946-48) Provisional President of Italy, made his countermove last week: he abruptly resigned as Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court. "The government," he declared angrily, "has shown scant appreciation of the court's work." Then, refusing to talk to anyone, De Nicola withdrew to his oleander-shrouded villa overlooking the Bay of Naples...
...turning point was last spring's elections, in which Communist China spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Burmese Communists win 40 seats from U Nu's ruling Socialists. "Interference of the most brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks...
...they had each spring for generations, a band of Bakhtiari tribesmen rode from winter pasturage in Shiraz and Khuzistan to summer fields in Isfahan province. In their ankle-length gowns and brimless felt hats, they nimbly crossed rock-strewn slopes, driving herds before them. At Do Polan summit the brazen, electronic voice of the 20th century met the ancient, changeless East. Four loudspeakers placed around a neat white tent blared at the tribesmen: "Stop...
...South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe-taking, Eastland is the epitome of respectability-a devoted family man and a prosperous landowner for whom politics is a passion rather than a livelihood. And even in his most intemperate outbursts, Eastland never descends to the kind of semi-obscene, anti-Negro venom displayed by Mississippi...