Word: brazen
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...obvious pandering to the prurient prudery of the American movie-going public, the brazen commercialization of a morbid interest in social disease and sex delinquency, found in a long line of "For Adults Only" pictures, from "Is Your Daughter Safe" of years ago, to the current "Road to Ruin," is a revolting commentary on the rule of King Dollar. The advertising of such films is calculated to make the adolescent-minded public believe that fornication and other assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice...
...week's issue of McClure's or Munsey's to soak up eagerly the revelations of Lincoln Steffens on this latest evidence of the decay of the 'System,' as he had named it. Following his hurried, jumpy, journalistic style through its thorough-going exploration of the intricacies and brazen sin of municipal graft. Steffens's audience would read avidly to the last word, throw up its hands in horror at the wickedness of the Big City, make up its mind to eject these bad men from office and place good men in their places, and in short, wholly misinterpret...
...Oklahoma State Senate, as an added tribute to the memory of the State's illustrious first governor, takes this occasion to give official denunciation to this infamous libel and an exposure of the author who gave it expression and the TIME, the magazine whose circulation depends upon its brazen iniquity...
...game of "Consequences." Authoress Stella Benson met Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine in the charity ward of a Hongkong hospital. He was an inmate, she a visitor. Aged (77). penniless, shaky but brazen, the old scamp regaled her with such engagingly improbable tales, carried himself with such an unabashed air of grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies...
There are only two conclusions to be drawn, and the Church's legal counsel, albeit unwittingly, draws them both in his voluble indignation. First an incredulous gallery is asked to believe that the Church authorities, through the period of Mr. Solomon's most brazen publicity, were solemnly unaware that the Cotton Club was aught but "an athletic and social organization." Amelia Sedley would have crossed her fingers at this, but when the counsel brightly interpolates that the Church, although a Boston incorporation, did not even know who was occupying their property, one suddenly feels that all bounds have been passed...