Word: churlish
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Face the Music slows up toward the end by the sheer weight of its extravagance in a courtroom scene in the Earl Carroll manner, but it would be a churlish critic indeed who would not admit that it is the most impressive musical show in town and one of the two funniest...
...save here self from jail, she puts herself in his power; and a particularly unpleasant power it is. Mr. Bickford, though often cast as a hero, is the most disagreeable exponent of brute force on the screen. Unlike Mr. George Bancroft, his forcefulness is simply illmannered, his strength merely churlish...
...dead against any policy of narrow monetary nationalism in matters of trade. Certainly we, who have thousands of millions engaged in foreign enterprises all over the earth, should be the last people even to contemplate a churlish attitude toward capital merely because it is foreign...
...modus vivendi (TIME, March 7) on the basis of which the U. S. has already sent to Turkey that alert and statesmanly "career diplomat," Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Since the appointments of Ambassadors Grew and Moukhtar Bey have been an accomplished fact for months, some observers thought it churlish of Mr. Gerard to wait until the Turkish Ambassador was actually en route, last week, before delivering himself as follows: "The Senate will soon have an opportunity to express itself upon the so-called modus vivendi, and if it should find as we believe it will find, that it is illegal...
...trouble began with "The Star Spangled Banner." A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it. So his teacher sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts...