Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very little attention to it. In the case of Mr. Wilson, however and his foreign mission the practice has been carried to an extreme. The most trivial incidents of his daily life, the most matter of fact circumstances connected with his reception have been advertised with brazen complacency. When the British offered him the only formal entertainment that could be extended to the head of a great nation, the papers made much of the royal treatment this "prince of democracy" was getting. To give all the real news connected with the mission is only reasonable: We want to know exactly...
...Delta, so named because, like the Nile, it suffers a yearly spring overflow, where, from his brazen seat, John Harvard frowns down at these roystering children of a frivolous generation, the banquet boards of 1917's hospitality will rest. And in Memorial Hall the ingrained odor of cabbage and beef from ten thousand dinners will be temporarily smothered under the fragrance of rose-water and culled flowers...
...clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...
What have we done in Mexico? Our initial purpose was to befriend a sister republic; we have ended by incurring a hatred which generations of painstaking diplomacy may not obliterate. Our refusal to recognize Huerta, our brazen attempt to regulate) Mexican politics, our bluster at Tampico and Vera Cruz and our subsequent undignified withdrawal, --these are acts which defy interpretation in terms of any national and con- sistent policy. We befriended Villa, we countenanced Carranza, and we failed utterly to protect American rights and American lives. After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa...