Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the blandest, most brazen U.S. Naziphile was out of circulation was good news for the U.S. But even better was the news that bald, bantam-beaked Attorney General Francis Biddle was cracking down at last on U.S. citizens who love the Axis...
...bill was described by the New York Times as "the most brazen sort of class legislation." But, already passed by the House, and due for quick passage by the Senate, it was expected to be signed by the President...
These were only surface indications of what is probably the most numerous and brazen fifth column in modern military history. In the Philippines its ramifications are still hidden by the fog of war. In the U.S., military operations have not yet forced it to expose itself. But by last week, as its Hawaiian triumph became known, its vast extent was beginning to be visible...
...distinguished scholar, after dining with him at Oxford a few years ago, happily described this aspect of his character when he called him "a connoisseur of books and of life."The Harvard Lampoon--Oct. 26, 1935"Last one out is a brazen-faced varlet...
Beside this battle, that of Salamis (480 B.C.) seems now a great exercise in fustian: there Xerxes, surrounded by his brilliant court, sitting on a throne on a shoulder of Mt. Aegaleus, watched his hopes of world conquest crushed on the crescent of water below, watched the brazen-beaked Athenian triremes dart in and bite the fat bellies of his own oversized craft, 400 little ships crushing twice as many big ones. One of the Athenian seamen that day was a poetic fellow named Aeschylus...