Word: brazenness
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...public exercise. Arkansas athletes will appear in trunks extending below the knees, and short-sleeved shirts, and memories of the "ole swim in' hole" will pass with other discarded antiquities. In France and England, even the women athletes wear the convenient "shorts" condemned for everyone in Arkansas; such brazen people would probably be guillotined here. The next legislature will no doubt design evening dresses. In Utah, Kansas, and South Dakota, smoking is unlawful. What could be more inconsistent than raising cigarette funds to help "win the war", and then stamping out the "deadly weed" as soon as its usefulness...
...more time on the stage when nothing is being said than when there is speech, and it is in his silences that Gilpin does some of his best work--though his speech, too, is excellent, and his rich, musical voice is a delight in itself. His gradual degeneration from brazen self-assurance to abject terror proceeds by subtle and orderly degrees, and carries the audience along in cumulative terror. In the first act, a dialogue between the pullman-porter, emperor and Smithers, a while trader on his island empire, is all that makes up the action...
...Scotia to track down a ghost which, evidently considering itself an outlaw, refuses to behave according to our preconceived notions of such things. And with him the good doctor has taken an "elaborate equipment of bells, cameras, flashlights, wires and white tracking powder". Shades of Friar Bacon and the Brazen Head...
...four acts and many scenes of the play were mostly of a comic order. The humor, if it was not always up to the standard of the Pat and Mike stories, was strangely boisterous and effective; nothing was appreciated more than hero Donovan's brazen nerve in Lawyer Waddy's office when he succeeded in striking a match on the bald pate of the frightened attorney. There were of course, really clever lines, all too many of which escaped the observation of the Collegians and Cavanagh in the boxes; subtility was not expected. As for plot, what more is necessary...
...whole treaty--the future stability of the world--is threatened by the brazen refusal of Senator Lodge to move a hair's breadth. A few meaningless differences in words is all that stands between agreement on the article ten reservation and peace. The Democrats have come nine-tenths of the way, but still the Republicans stand adamant, flaunting their power in the face of a universal demand for ratification. Under the contemptible guise of "Americanism," selfish political considerations are blocking the road to world peace...