Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grinning, pumpkin-plump Clara, 46, is not the cinema ideal of a hula queen. One night at the Royal Hawaiian, to the distress of the management, she sang and danced a brazen number called When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop. Composer Don McDiarmid was aghast ("I had in mind a slender, beautiful Hawaiian maiden-and look at you"). But the cash customers wanted more. The song became her trademark, and Hilo Hattie soon became Clara's professional name...
...idealism of those still hopeful for peace on earth and good will towards men. But of the two, the Palestine issue is much the more clearly defined, much the more tragic twist of events. The current Czechoslovakia situation, while unquestionably the product of a Communist putsch of the most brazen sort, is not yet fully enough evolved to warrant throwing one hand up in despair and reaching for a rifle with the other, as many are already doing. It is true that President Benes has capitulated to the extent that he has accepted the resignation of twelve...
...their way) and in twoscore other U.S. and foreign papers, the first chapters of their Russian Journal appeared. According to plan, they had brought back no headlines but an unexcited (and sometimes unexciting) report that, like any proof that the Russians are people after all, would make the brazen voice of the Kremlin all the more disheartening...
...Leon Shamroy's camera gives Amber a highly appetizing protective Technicoloration that dotes with equal affection on furniture and flesh, brazen sconce and brazen bust...
...white and yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...