Word: boorishness
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...asserts, is not the age of the Common Man, but "the Century of the uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess of servile pottage." Merely to offer more & more of such education to more people, says Bell, solves nothing. The only hope for U.S. civilization as Bell sees...
...that they would far sooner play with those nice boys from Cleveland or New York with the 70,000 seating capacities. But the Red Sex rebuttal expressing deep sorrow that Jeff Heath had broken only his leg when it might so easily have been his neck bordered on the boorish...
Died. Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Victor of Prussia, 64, boorish third ("Sailor Boy") son of Kaiser Wilhelm II,† noted in his youth for love affairs, bad manners, and the fact that he spent much of World War I as a naval officer luxuriating in Bruges, Belgium; of a heart ailment; in Montreux, Switzerland...
...ripe old age of 184, the Hartford Courant is still hale, hearty (circ. 61,000) and articulate. Its readers speak up, too. In a single letters-to-the-editor column last week they hurled such epithets at the editorials across the page as "boorish," "intolerant," "jaundiced," "smug," "partisan propaganda," and "poorly written." The editors hardly winced; as long as they were getting back talk, they knew that their stuff was being read...
...himself had to fetch live rabbits for the two boa constrictors she kept in her bathroom. Once the management had to insist that the Countess de Salverte move out because her pet lion had grown too big. To survive World War II, the Ritz had to knuckle to such boorish guests as Hermann Göring. It salved its conscience by wheedling more food from the Nazis than it needed, supplying a lower-priced restaurant for Frenchmen around the corner...