Word: brazen
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...play which Producer John Golden has chosen to usher in this season sets out deliberately to make its audiences weep. If spectators are compelled to blubber at After Tomorrow they must realize that, like Alice's, their tears are not real tears. They are being hoodwinked by bald and brazen theatrical bathos...
Monastic Spartan. George & Mrs. Bernard Shaw were late for the luncheon party of 19 which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald gave to welcome Drs. Brüning & Curtius to "Chequers," the British summer White House. Mrs. Shaw appeared mortified, George, breezy and brazen as usual. By arriving late in a car which he drove himself, the red-whiskered Irishman kept waiting not only the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of two Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary...
Mosley campaign methods are brazen, breezy and effective. They electioneer from a limousine, confounding tattered hecklers with the question: "Why shouldn't we be comfortable?" She kisses babies without bothering to doff her pearls. The only downright campaign lie he tells is this...
...Russian Government is always preaching war and preparedness, pretending that some unnamed enemy is meditating an attack. Their Government lawyers at the recent interventionist trial in Moscow had the brazen impudence to contend that the British General Staff was planning to attack Russia...
...defeated, selfexiled. Some of the "attendants" said that Marshal Yen yearns to tour first Japan, next the U. S., will shortly do so. Others said he will settle down at Beppu, Japan's Karlsbad, lately the refuge of that other Chinese exile, notorious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, so brazen that he calls his attendants "concubines" and worse (TIME...