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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Lost Positive | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: For Art's Sake | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Unrivaled for the richness and variety of its slang is Winchester, whose famed founder, William, of Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolboy Slang | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...retired head of Universal Pictures, who is rumored to once have demanded "someone couth" for a certain part in a picture, is deeply concerned over the fact that "The great pottery interests in this country are playing second Fiddle to Japan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laemmle Asks for Buy American Drive; Signs His Appeal "Patriotically Yours" | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

Blaring a welcome period to the weary era of super-colossal musical films, "The Goldwyn Folliers" turns out to be one of those movies which is significant not only for what "couth" Samuel Goldwin has put into the show which bears his name, but also for what he leaves out--namely, a plot. Rows of chorus girls, silvery glitter, and shiny floors are here replaced by the ballet and the opera, both excellently handled. Added to this are Charlie McCarthy, making his full-length movie debut, and the whacky Ritz Brothers, who, as usual, hold their own on the comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

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