Word: brazenness
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...Well," he related, "the nerviest convict I can remember was one brazen fellow who didn't show a trace of fear while being strapped into the chair. Took it just as calmly. As a matter of fact, he asked only one question. Just before they turned on the juice, he glanced at the official electrocutioner and said, 'By the way, bud, is this AC or DC?' " JOHN HARDEN
...dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full of dope, the stepdaughter feeds him alternate Scotch and scorn, and the elderly, harmless-seeming nabob is in savagely at the climactic kill. The hyperpituitary ex-convict, incidentally, finds his lost lovely at last...
Frenchman's Creek (Paramount) is a minor masterpiece of mush. A color-drenched $4,000,000 cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-seller laid in 17th-Century England (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), it offers male cinemaddicts little for their money except innumerable coyly brazen veilings and half-unveilings of Joan Fontaine's Restoration bosom, and a startling scene in which Miss Fontaine, alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed...
...statement, "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." This was "fantastic," said Candidate Roosevelt; he had read it with "amazement." The War Department had announced a plan for speedy demobilization. "This callous and brazen falsehood was, of course, a very simple thing . . . an effort to stimulate fear among American mothers, wives and sweethearts...
Last March, just before his $15,000-a-year contract came up for vote before the Board of Education, the Chicago Citizens Schools Committee shrilled: "It is doubtful whether in the whole history of America so brazen an attempt was ever made by a superintendent of schools to corner the market for his own books in the schools under his direction." Johnson promptly assured his employers that he received not one penny from sales of his books to Chicago. His annual royalties, as high as $14,000, he announced, accrue to him from use of his books by cities...