Word: brazenness
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...believe that it is demonstrable that every one of these elements is equally prevalent in the Democratic Party. But there is a difference: in the Democratic Party they are entrenched, they are geographically integrated and supported by an ancient prejudice, and by corrupt and brazen political machines. While in the Republican Party they are scattered and unsupported by effective political organizations...
...virulent hatred of what she termed the "communistic" fantasies of "desperate radicals"-by which she meant Home Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance. Monarch and monarchist battled for 20 years. Much of the time the widowed Queen was unpopular with her subjects because she insisted on secluding herself in her country palaces...
...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...
This spectacle went on all week at the Paramount. Many hepcats sat through most of the seven shows a day, chewing chocolate bars and put-up lunches. Some had passed up $8 in defense plants, $5 in grocery stores, etc., to hear the brazen coloratura of James's trumpet. Puzzled adults who asked what he had never got a clearer answer than: "It does something to your blood." Said the harassed Paramount switchboard operator: "Don't mention the name James...
...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...