Word: brazen
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...going at Queen Victoria's estate in Somersetshire. Her Majesty happened by and took a hand. She was delighted and asked Schenck to draw up some rules. He obliged and added that "it is good practice to chaff (talk nonsense) with a view to misleading your opponents." This brazen encouragement of coffee-housing caused U.S. poker purists to demand his recall...
...sorrows of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Chippie Hill survive only in the grooves of phono graph records, but their way with a song has been a lesson to every singer right down to Rosemary Clooney and Eartha Kitt. Lizzie is surviving handsomely, in person. Her voice has a brazen ring and a driving spirit; if she sings a bit flat here and there, she is always steady on the beat. Above all, she brings an au hentic echo of a past jazz age that the youngsters in her audience never knew and the oldtimers tearfully remember...
...Most Intimate (Charlie Shavers, trumpet, and strings; Bethlehem). A skillful jazzman, whose muted flights were jewels of chamber jazz in the late '305, now playing wide-open. Backed by Sy Oliver's strings, Shavers' brazen tones soar, tumble and melt as they extract the moods of tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Green...
Sukhanov refused to become a Bolshevik and regarded Lenin and Trotsky as brazen adventurers, ignorant of the mas ter role of economics in "scientific Socialism." By October, Lenin and Trotsky were more intent on seizing power than sticking to strict Marxist theory. Ironically, they decided on a coup d'état in Sukhanov's own flat; Lenin showed up, still incognito, wearing a wig and without beard. Two weeks later, in what is known as the October revolution, the Bolsheviks marched friendly troops to key points and Trotsky sneeringly consigned opposition party members to the "dustbin of history...
...best sign that Russia is concerned with law and order came last Thursday. It seems Norway and some British Commonwealth countries were brazen enough to charge that the U. S. S. R. was catching whales in the Antarctic out of season. Moscow, of course, outrageously denied that it would be involved in any poaching. The Soviet Union, its officials quickly pointed out, had taken the whales under Article VIII of the International Agreement on Whaling. This clause enables a certain number of baleen whales to be caught for scientific purposes before or after the season starts. Rumors from sources close...