Crossword-Solution: BRASHNESS 9 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Men blunder woefully in their relations with women, not because of innate boorishness in the sex, not because of willful brashness, but because of lack of understanding.

Six years later Frank Norris shook up the Phelpses and Mores of the time with "McTeague." Since then there have been assaults timorous and assaults head-long--by Bierce, by Dreiser, by Phillips, by Fuller--by Mary MacLanes and by Upton Sinclairs--by ploughboy poets from the Middle West and by jitney geniuses in Greenwich Village--assaults gradually tapering off to a mere sophomoric brashness and deviltry.

There is an almost High Victorian Gothic brashness in the treatment of the exterior walls with bands of alternately white and green stone.

The spatial complexity of the interior is of real interest, and the walls are painted to suggest polychromatic brickwork of almost English brashness.

Think what you have to endure on the ordinary railroad—and what other kind is there—smoke, dust, cinders, noise, the hurrying of masses of people, the ringing of bells, the tooting of whistles, the brashness and discourtesy of employes, cattle trains, coal trains, fruit trains, milk trains in endless procession—and then they tell you that these are necessary in order to give you the service you get.