Word: coarser
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...male parts are only fair, and in one of them we find a jarring element; for the humor of Mr. Irving Brooks, when not machine-like, is a coarser element than should ordinarily be found in a production of so delicate finish...
...writer is not mistaken, that the most sacred of the old Harvard songs, revered alike for its antiquity and its associations, is sung and played only upon most solemn occasions or at moments of deepest feeling. We have a notion that by maintaining our hymn aloof from freer and coarser use, we render it cleaner and pleasanter as a remainder of the more inspiring aspects of University life...
...their own race, have become lovers. When the play begins they are visiting friends of the young man, a newly-married couple in Chicago. Here they find their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost disgusting; to him they are fascinatingly alive. She breaks the engagement, but "puts a good face on it" till after dinner...