Word: couthness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense: "You can't call any music immoral. If anything is wrong with rock 'n' roll, it is that it makes a virtue out of monotony." For the prosecution, the best comment comes indirectly from Actress Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday: It's just not couth, that...
...EDWARD GANG, 26, in the Oxford undergraduate magazine COUTH...
...know a little man both ept and ert. And intro? extra? No, he's just a vert. Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane; His image trudes upon the ceptive brain...
...campaign was getting somewhere. New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby had "dorsed" the trend, proclaimed himself a member of the "Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives." Later, a smart copywriter for Gimbels picked up the idea, blazoned an eight-column ad for fall college fashions: "couth, kempt, sheveled . . . that's how college girls will look this fall...
...cash register, counter, or order book in sight, thick carpeting (changed four times a year) covering the floors, Steuben looked more like an elegant museum than a retail store. To Steuben President Arthur Amory Houghton Jr., 43, fondly described by one of his associates as a "real couth" fellow, that was just as it should be. Steuben, says he, has always been more interested in art than in sales reports. "We're not interested in the ordinary businessman's standards of success . . . [but in catching onto] the coattails of immortality...