Word: brazenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...gummy fields. To them nothing felt better than a thorough soaking to the skin. Let it rain! Let it fall! Let it keep on falling! One inch, two inches, three inches, four inches, five inches in parts of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio! Let it break Drought's brazen back! People would again have water to wash their dusty faces. Cattle would again have water to drink. In some places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields to help feed cattle during the winter...
...modern world. His summing up is not complimentary but it is stated with tolerant, sometimes uproarious humor. His hero is "that" August, vagabond, Jack-of-all-trades, "a man who had sailed the seven seas and who was rags both inside and out ... a man of splendid virtues and brazen faults." Old now, and temporarily a useful citizen because he has no money in his pocket. Hamsun's epitome of the modern spirit turns up at the little Norwegian coastal town of Segelfoss, rapidly makes a place for himself as an indispensable handyman. With his helpful hand...
...many a year the U. S. churches have deplored what they call the brazen indecency of U. S. cinema. Their annual conferences have passed resolutions. Their clergy have lobbied for censorship bills. Their journals have crusaded. But for all their zeal the churches have accomplished very little. Last week, led by members of the Roman Catholic Church, they were embarked on a new crusade, brandishing a new weapon-the boycott. That they were in earnest impressed even hardboiled Variety, which for once put aside its racy style to tell about the "Legion of Decency" in a straightforward article headlined: "CATHOLICS...
...protective right, in our American sphere; and besides, we were making the world safe for democracy, at least, the American world at that time by undesigning the South American Revolution and thus making it a successful revolution. But I am led to wonder if it is not a bit brazen and self-contradictory to get into another sphere, and in self-appointed leadership and proxy to dictate to Japan an unqualified insistence on the "open door" to China. (I often wonder, too, what China has to say about it, after...