Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doors. When Billy and the two girls ran to the shattered doors, they saw the man fleeing across the soggy rear lawn and down the slope toward Commencement Bay, with Charles held tightly under his arm. In the litter of broken glass at their feet they picked up this crude pocket-worn note that appeared to have been printed on a child's toy printing...
...sank a shaft to a depth of approximately 40 feet, and with the aid of a small two-cylindered gasoline engine, an iron triped rising about 15 feet from the ground, and a crude pulley, they succeeded in obtaining small samples of dirt...
Artist Copley continued to ship pictures to London where they won great praise from Sir Joshua Reynolds and his group, but Copley did not move to London until 1774. In London his work lost the crude color and simple, direct line of his colonial period. On the other hand, Copley was able to indulge to the full his fondness for painting satins, velvets, rich laces. He began to compose grandiloquent historical scenes like The Siege of Gibraltar, The Death of Lord Chatham...
Your magazine goes into the best homes in the country, and my own little son and daughters read it every week. To have their youthful minds shocked and seared by such a crude and vulgar description of one of the most sacred things of life is utterly 'abhorrent to me as a physician, as a father and as a gentleman...
Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has contributed a number of the prints now on display in the Theatre Room. Scenes shown vary from the crude efforts of the Mary Pickford-Charlie Chaplin era to extravaganzas like "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Here Comes the Fleet...