Word: crassness
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...conduct and disposal of all legal problems. As an expression of this type of thinking carried to the extreme we cite the famous remark of a Harvard professor to the student who mentioned Justice, "If you want Justice, go to the Divinity School." This statement is eloquent in its crass failure to meet the issue...
...Quorn was due to meet in Leicestershire's Loughborough last week on Boxing Day when a spasm of horror racked Sir Harold and his subscribers. Word slipped out that a crass and venal Loughborough manufacturer proposed a novel stunt to advertise his pants and shirts. As the Quorn met he would release a fox dressed in shirt and pants...
Toward Geneva the train of French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval was chuffing. Day before this crass politician had been considerably surprised when his subordinate in Rome, deft and subtle Ambassador de Chambrun, managed to achieve a fairly satisfactory agreement with German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell as to post-plebiscite procedure in the Saar, if it votes to rejoin Germany (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week M. Laval was due for another surprise...
...When crass news cameramen pushed Prince George aside the better to photograph blonde, blue-eyed Princess Marina and when someone shouted "Oh well, Prince, the bridegroom is always neglected!" he grinned with obvious pleasure at the novelty...
...Crass Infraction." Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller, the blatant German Army chaplain promoted by Adolf Hitler to the post of virtual dictator of German Protestantism (TIME, Oct. 9), denounced foreign Protestant pastors for criticizing his autocratic policies last week, flayed them for "seeing with the eyes of a poorly or falsely informed foreign world." Next day, in a suit to test Reichsbischof Müller's January decree on which he based his Protestant dictatorship, the Berlin High Court declared: "The decree undoubtedly is invalid, and thus everything is null and void that the Reichsbischof has done on the strength...