Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story (from F. Anstey's fantastic novel) liberates an evil genie, four thousand years old, from captivity in the brazen receptacle. The liberator, an impoverished young architect, is promptly offered his heart's desire by the relieved genie. He wishes the contract on a certain building and a life contract with a certain girl. By various and wonderful means these wishes are fulfilled...
...Queenie Gerald [the 'wicked woman']. . . . She is not quite the same insolent and brazen harpy she was. . . . She not only revels in lust and vice, but in many other forms of misconduct...
There still remain things to be done. The boat race must be rowed today and the baseball game must be played tomorrow. The sky has been searched with powerful telescopes but not a cloud has been seen to break the viciously brazen arch of the heavens. Yet even if the sun continues its merciless glare and the asphalt becomes a sea of tar, the shadows of Harvard rooters will throng to the arenas of sport to cheer on their teoms. . . . "The rest is silence...
...those as far from the orchestra as are the final rows in a concert hall, much of the nuance of the orchestra is lost. The pianissimi are apt to be inaudible. For this reason the best programs for outdoor performance are vigorous ones, with heavy masses of tone and brazen climaxes. Tschaikowsky is ideal...
Down at New Haven, someone wanted to rear a brazen bulldog in a public place, to symbolize the spirit of the Yale teams. But when the secretaries of the classes who would have given it were consulted, the proposal met with unanimous and overwhelming opposition. Probably, these secretaries saw visions of thousands of editorials, filled with "golden calves" and "sacrifices to Molech" and were wise...