Word: brazenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the Congressmen around the horseshoe were three Republican isolationists: Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell, Mass., 59, fluttery, saccharine, gushing, with orchids and iron-grey curls; Hamilton Fish of Garrison, N. Y., 52, rangy, headline-hungry, with a brazen voice and a longtime suspicion of England; George Holden Tinkham of Boston, Mass., 70, bald, potbellied, with jowl-whiskers like a Russian droshky driver. Mr. Fish, veteran of many a skirmish with old Mr. Hull, and knowing that the Secretary's innocent, suffering face masks a hot-pincers talent of repartee, gave up the witness swiftly, but prodded furious...
...Book (sweet), Love Is My Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named Jean Casto...
...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...