Word: churlish
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Honeymoon Lane. Eddie Dowling wrote the book, lyrics, music, and acts the leading role. His personal popularity is the show's greatest asset. So likable is Eddie that even the most churlish fellow finds himself shamed into trying to enjoy the production. That is not so hard, really, in spite of the sticky sentimentality that inevitably gums a musical comedy book about a country lad, a country lass, a dream, and a cottage at the end of Honeymoon Lane. It is easier to forget Eddie's slush because Florence O'Denishawn dances thru it all like...
...tell thee, churlish priest, A ministring angel shall my sister...
...rash and inconsiderate Argus, having ventured a "churlish criticism" of the Beacon, has been completely annihilated in half a column of simile, seriousness, and sarcasm. We, therefore, profiting by such an example, simply offer our congratulations to the Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether...