Word: brazen
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...problems which furrow the brow of patient Secretary of State Cordell Hull is what to do about official Nazi representatives in the U. S. The activities of two underlings have been so brazen that he has had to boot them out.* But Mr. Hull has to be careful when he kicks, lest he break the already taut cord of diplomatic relations with Hitler. U. S. representatives would then in turn be booted out of Germany, and the U. S. be deprived of one of its few remaining listening posts in Europe. The zeal of the Dies Committee has not made...
...jump into their pants with both feet instead of putting them on. He seems to think those boys have energy to burn. Football has certainly been racing along the road to subsidization in recent but there will be barriers in the way. Southern colleges are the most outrageous and brazen in their actions--their reward will be schedules among themselves. Northern teams are beginning to shy away from them, canceling lucrative games for the future. Notre Dame wants no more of Georgia Tech; Dartmouth is anxious to get out of playing a series of games with Georgia. Nevertheless there...
...fire of 1871 let loose Chicago's underworld for a brazen orgy of pillage, "the richest harvest of loot that had ever fallen to the lot of American criminals." Three hundred and fifty prisoners were freed from the flaming jail, promptly broke into a jewelry store. Through the glare scurried whores, murderers, thieves, all "scolding, stealing, fighting; laughing at the beautiful and splendid crash of walls and falling roofs...
Fifty years ago few divorced persons were so brazen as to appear in any church. But like the horseless carriage, divorce has since become such a commonplace (16 out of every 100 U. S. marriages) that U. S. churches have changed their tune. Few officially allow their ministers to remarry divorced persons (save innocent parties in divorces for adultery) or admit them to Communion after remarriage. Unofficially, many U. S. churches allow both. Last week the relatively small (1,900,000 members) but influential Protestant Episcopal Church, which in law and practice has been among the strictest, made ready...
...Compton, after a meeting with Lohr, decided museum troubles were due more to financial problems than Lohr management. But Dr. Philip Fox still wondered whether the people of Chicago wanted their museum handled in such a "brazen manner." But there was no mass uprising. Bad sign for Dr. Fox and his 19 ousted colleagues came when the Major bought a $100,000, 14-room mansion in Evanston. Major & Mrs. Lohr planned to move in by Sept. 1 with their five children, a large butterfly collection...