Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bells rang out from Westminster Abbey, St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. The bells in the grey spires of Oxford sent their tumbling, brazen din across the countryside, and in ruined Coventry Cathedral the bells pealed from the tower, the only part of the structure intact...
...From the brazen front page assertion that "We Thinks This Place Stinks" the four-page, bile-orange colored paper went on to claim that it was "Loathed by the President, Loved by the Fellows of Harvard University...
...feel, with nearly two million native Puerto Rican American citizens, that you owe us an apology. As a subscriber of many years' standing I am surprised and ashamed to see my favorite periodical gratuitously insult our people and falsify the facts in so brazen a manner; to wit: there are no jungles in Puerto Rico; as to swamps, there are some few hundred acres which are yearly being eliminated by reclamation. Surely we have slums in Borinquén bella, but absolutely not in the proportion your article insinuates. As to rum, let me inform you that more than...
Nasty bit of business: devious Bette, home from driving her purloined husband to suicide, and burning to get out of town, tries to wheedle the cash to do it with from her robber-baron uncle, wins a chuckle from him with the brazen admission: "Guess I'm kill or cure." When he refuses to give her the money, she tries to make the old man drink himself to death...
Missouri's present Legislature, packed with city ward heelers and cracker-box statesmen, has set an all-time record for brazen corruption. Grasping members developed "sandbag" legislation to a fine art, used such bills to shake down businessmen and labor unions for everything from new suits of clothes to folding money. Two Legislators were convicted for accepting bribes; the grand jury which indicted them apologized for not trapping more...