Word: crassness
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Verses in this vein, appearing in the Communistic Daily Worker, induced one David Gordon also to write a poem. He called it "America," and in it, by crass terms, described the Goddess of Liberty in New York Harbor as looking down upon a land where liberty no longer thrived. So vile did three New York judges think the boy's phrases, so indecent his imagery that they would not excuse his adolescence. Last week they ordered him to the reformatory for 13 months. Three other judges had already sentenced Editor William F. Dunne of the Daily Worker...
...kind is fair notice to all ... of the desperate plight in which the leaders of the church feel themselves to be." The Christian Century also said: "For the sake of the child herself, for the sake of the public conception of religion, for the sake of the church, this crass exploitation should be stopped...
...Europe the crass and cruel injustices of the peace treaty still cry to high Heaven for redress. In the Tyrol as in other states they curse the name of Wilson, the author of their misery. There is evidence that today the Germans are more popular in France than the Americans; that the acclaim which greeted our plunge into the War has turned to envy, bitterness and open revolt at what they call their bond-slavery to our Treasury. Everywhere in Europe the tide of hatred against America rises. Before he died Woodrow Wilson himself said: 'I would like...
When the great dames and ladies of Britain's woman's suffrage movement read these crass words they took up the telephones, called "Regent 500," and told Lord Hugh Cecil with plaintive good humor what they thought...
...affair founders on his poverty before it is launched. His friends are a kindly, resigned fatalist, and a mad painter who drags him to hear opera from the top gallery. His sensitive nature is sickened by the War and after the misery of heroism he experiences peacetime betrayal by crass noncombatants. This wistfulness may irritate some U. S. readers, used to two-fisted, hammer-and-tongs irony. Clerks who cheat and win under our system must brag about it later to ring true. Our politicians are colorful or they are nothing. Not so in France. There political satire...