Word: brazenness
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There have been few stories in recent magazine literature so extraordinary in its plot and so forcible in its vivid descriptions as the late William Douglass O'Connor's "Brazen Android," the concluding portion of which appears in the Atlantic Monthly for May. If the first part of the romance was remarkable, it was at least within the lines in which story tellers are accustomed to confine themselves; but the character introduced in the second part is so inexplicable, and his action in the story so tremendous, that what has seemed but strange hitherto becomes now the merest commonplace...
...something of a relief to turn from the tension of "The Brazen Android" to the portion of a hitherto unpublished journal of Richard Henry Dana, which describes a voyage on the Grand Canal of China. The most charming part of the paper is that where Mr. Dana gives us a picture of the exquisite courtesy and politeness of a certain Chinese gentleman named U-u. This U-u showed a characteristic bit of Chinese courtesy-which might be recommended to Harvard men-when, declining to smoke more than one or two puffs of a cigar given him by a friend...
...Brazen Android" is the curious title of a story in two parts by the late William Douglas O'Connor, which has the place of honor in the Atlantic for April. It is a story of old London, and its ancient life is brought vividly before us by the ready imagination of the author. Francis Parkman's second paper on "The Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia" is marked by the still and care which Mr. Parkman devotes to everything he writes, and Mr. Stockton's "House of Martha" continues for three more chapters in its usual vivacious fashion...
...social engagements. We would inform this meddler. Why should he question the actions of the nine and its captain? Do not they know better than he? Let him see to it that he meddles no more in matters he does not understand. It has seemed to some, perhaps, like brazen effrontery for the nine to flaunt their striped blazers in the faces of those who paid for them, and to calmly spend their time as best suits themselves, with no apparent regard to the duty they owe their class. But let those malcontents fret no longer, but console themselves with...
...much to lower the tone of the press in this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime...