Word: crabbedness
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Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
In Mansion on the Hudson, Miss Skinner is first a bustled lady of 1880, the mistress of "Tall Trees," rejecting an old flame's advances even though her worthless husband is busy dissipating his property over the gaming tables at Saratoga. By 1898 "Tall Trees" has fallen into the...
With no settlement in sight and Russo-Japanese feelings tense over the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Kronotsky incident left Russians inflamed. Still more crabbed was Hajime Suritate, head of the Kakumeiso reactionary organization in Tokyo. Brooding the fate of his compatriots on the cape, angry Hajime broke into the office...
Suddenly he turns a corner, steps into the full of the strong wind coming out of the southward dusk, laden with the odors of vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon...
Radio announcer of that game for Columbia Broadcasting Co. was staccato Edward ("Ted") Husing. Sharing with many football experts an impression that Wood's strategies were not such as could be expected from a Phi Beta Kappa quarterback, Announcer Husing described his play as "putrid." Harvard men wrote letters...