Word: crassness
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...written 78 books on "bridge and other games" could not be a trained scholar. One statement is evidently true: "R. F. Foster is not a theologian." The study of bis face indicates what Plato would call a "keen and narrow intelligence," which was also true of Mephistopheles. While the crass and unbaked author may not have the "slightest desire to go to heaven" nor fear of hell, there is no danger of his going to either place, but one thing is as certain as the law of gravitation, and that is, that he will "reap what he has sown...
Meanwhile numerous crass Britishers blatantly proclaimed their entire ignorance concerning the Order of St. John. Promptly they were informed that it is the sole survivor of the many knightly orders established during the Crusades. A well supported legend ascribes its foundation to Pope Gregory the Great (540-604), who established numerous hospices in the Holy Land. After the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, the Order of St. John the Baptist at that place became the cradle of the numerous orders of St. John of Jerusalem, of which a still surviving offshoot exists in England, Germany, Italy, Silesia...
...time or another, regarded as a prodigy? Let any baby spend an hour taking a twelve-jeweled watch apart, and no parent can fail to perceive in him the seed of potential engineering genius; let him draw in pencil on the nursery wall and his mother-unless she be crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet, "The Baby Browning of Brooklyn," whose...
...Boston and Cambridge swoop down upon the newsstands and with a grand gesture of patriotic and ethical zeal, carry off every available copy of the Lampoon, as if it were a carrier of pestilence and destruction. Nothing could be more ludicrous, more utterly absurd if it were not so crass and insolent a demonstration of petty tyranny...
WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...