Word: brazen
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...Uncle Joe" Cannon, in the revolt of 1910. The speakership was whittled down almost to its purely procedural functions. Since then the Speaker's powers have been gradually increasing again, with Joe Martin's (and before him, Sam Rayburn's) subtle cloakroom tactics substituting for the brazen railroading of Czar Reed...
...raise our voice to alert Catholics at this moment when the worst atheistic doctrine of all time-anti-Christian Communism-continues its brazen inroads in our country, masquerading as a movement of social reform for the needy classes . . . Our frontiers are opened wide to a rabble of foreign adventurers trained in the tactics of international Communism. In violations of the laws of the land, ample freedom is given them. From the official radio stations are heard the incessant preaching of social disruption and the broadcasting of the teachings of the Soviet Politburo. Newsstands are flooded with Communist literature...
Still-Lifes & Laundry Bills. Eddie (no one ever called him anything else) liked realism. "I am . . . a consistent and brazen supporter of what is now slightingly called representational art," he once said. But much of what he collected was considered daringly modern and experimental at the time. In last week's show there was a boldly patterned Duncan Grant still-life called Parrot Tulips, an Ivon Kitchens and a moody Graham Sutherland that Eddie picked up before any of the painters was recognized. He bought Sculptor Henry Moore's early sketches of sad, nude women, a beautiful Augustus...
...Nacionalistas, as might have been expected, hotly denied the charges as "brazen" and "a canard...
...Miss Merman's one-sided telephone chats with "Harry" get a little routine and if her romance with Sanders is inspired too often by her million dollars, it doesn't matter much. As long as Call Me Madam has Ethel Merman for its head lady, it can brazen out any lapse...