Word: boorishnesses
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...fried slabs, flat, grey, served with a thick flour gravy," and sometimes topped by a couple of fried eggs. The Texans seemed to her as bad as their food, loud braggarts who had stolen Texas from the Mexicans and now treated them like peons. The men were big and boorish, the women loud, overdressed nitwits. When Jett Rink, the fabulous oil millionaire, gave a party, Leslie saw "Stetsons worn with black dinner coats . . . women in Mainbocher evening gowns escorted by men in shirt sleeves and boots." In the huge Reata house the library was bookless, the music room "mute...
While the storm rages outside, all is good fellowship within. Then the truck driver, boorish and a little drunk, insults one of the vaudeville girls, quarrels with Pomfret and quits the party. Later, when Martha and Pomfret drive off in the snowstorm, the truck driver is waiting for them beside the road, deliberately smashes into them from the rear and kills them...
Silence & Counterblast. Yale's official reaction to the Buckley blast was a cold silence. But unofficially, it was ablaze with counterblasts. The Yale Daily News denounced Buckley as a "child of the Middle Ages." Economist John Perry Miller denounced his book as "warped and distorted . . . scurrilous and boorish." Said Philosopher Theodore M. Greene...
Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "If a labor member had been guilty of so indiscreet and offensive a reference to a friendly nation the matter would have been plastered across the headlines. But . . . Churchill. . . can display boorish ill manners and the Tory press does not give so much as a deprecatory cough...
...take each other prisoner, settled battles with silver bullets (.i.e., cash bribes), often left one city gate open for retreat when they had surrounded a rival, even provided transport for the defeated general's belongings (they hoped for a return of the courtesy in reversed circumstances), considered it boorish to attack in bad weather. Mao fought for keeps...