Word: brazenness
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...Brazen Blackmail [Hungarian Style...
...very much ashamed for such a gangsterlike extortion by my former country, and now these two letters make me act. I am sure the only proper thing for anybody who is a Hungarian, or ever has been one, is to find the money to cover the amount of this brazen blackmail, and to refund it to the U.S. Government. There is plenty of money in Hungarian and ex-Hungarian hands in New York, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and I fervently hope that this letter will be read by a few public-minded people, who will take up the cause...
...queen; "sweet Nell of Old Drury" has almost been sentimentalized into a saint of strumpetry. It may come as something of a surprise to readers of Author John H. Wilson's brisk but scholarly biography that on contemporary testimony the true, unsanctified Nell was also "wanton, brazen, debauched and humorous ... a bold, merry slut," and all for all, "the wildest and indiscreetest creature that ever was in a court...
Within hours, the A.M.A.'s bigwigs began to act as though they had never heard of the plan before. Snapped Surgeon John W. Cline, the A.M.A.'s pushing, politicking president: "Another flagrant proposal to play politics with the medical welfare of the American people . . . Brazen misuse of defense emergency funds for a program of political propaganda, designed to influence legislation and the outcome of the 1952 election." Wisconsin's Dr. Gunnar Gundersen, an A.M.A. trustee who had halfway accepted a bid to serve on the commission, backed out hastily, saying it was designed "as an instrument...
UNSQUELCHABLE effrontery has always been Groucho's chief stock in trade. During his stage & screen career, he played a succession of brazen rascals: fraudulent attorney, flimflamming explorer, dissolute college president, amoral private eye, cozening operatic entrepreneur, horse doctor posing as a fashionable neurologist ("Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"), bogus Emperor of France?using such aliases as J. Cheever Loophole, Captain Spaulding, Professor Wagstaff, Detective Sam Grunion, Otis. B. Driftwood, Wolf J. Flywheel and Napoleon. Whatever the alias or whatever the rascality, he was always the same rascal, the con man who made no bones about...