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...earliest, most famed of composopraphs. the Venus of Urbino has the head of the wealthy, potent Duchess of Urbino attached to the body of a honey skinned Venetian strumpet. "The position of the left hand," wrote Mark Twain, "is one of the most brazen pieces of impudicity I have ever looked upon...
...However, the swastika wreath is not an insult to the Harvard Chapel alone, it is a brazen and sneering affront to the entire University, for the wreath is an emblem of a regime which has terrorized the students and professors of Germany, and which has reduced the splendid German national culture to an incoherent barbarism. That the friends and representatives of the Hitler government should dare to lay this swastika wreath in the name of peace, at the precise moment when Hitler, throwing aside all pretense, is arming his enslaved nation to the teeth, is a glaring example...
...Manhattan last spring a New York City detective named Louis Barr found Vincent Burke, director of the Olympian League of Nudists, sitting at a desk in front of Topel's Swimming School. Mr. Burke had rented the establishment for a nudist assembly, in brazen violation, Detective Barr suspected, of State laws against lewdness, indecency and nuisances...
David Lloyd George early made him a personal friend, golfed with him every week, saw that he was knighted in 1909, made a baronet in 1918, finally raised to the peerage. Publisher Riddell's brazen career in yellow-journalism was blandly overlooked when War was declared. He was appointed liaison officer between the Government and the Press and for four years kept the relationship as amicable as military censorship would permit. The Versailles Conference found him the affable go-between of the British signatories and the Press. A newsman at heart, Lord Riddell was disappointed when Clemenceau truculently refused...
Fortified with this spirit, Button has no great trouble in making the name of "Gold Eagle Guy" a power on the Pacific. He transports Chinese labor, marries his partner's fiance, and sails with brazen keel over all opposition. Faced in 1898 with ruinous Japanese competition, he steals government bullion from one of his own vessels, then scuttles her to conceal the deed. It is not money for which Button lusts, however, but rather power, and the ability to create. His faith in himself is colossal, and like Jeremiah, he shrouds all his actions in a sort of Old Testament...