Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fissure feed patent of Lewis Edson Waterman is dated Feb. 12, 1884. There were many attempts to make a fountain pen prior to Mr. Waterman's invention. It is not known who first conceived the idea of a fountain pen or who first attempted to make one. A crude fountain pen was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii and other ink-containing instruments were known to be in the possession of King Louis XIV of France and Thomas Jefferson. In this country alone several hundred patents for "fountain pens" were issued prior to Mr. Waterman's patent. None...
...Egypt. Also cleared last season was the 14th Century Palace of the Rulers, where the Goddess was supposed to have taken refuge. An object of search and speculation for 25 years, the palace revealed one room closely resembling the throne room of the Palace at Knossos. Broken pottery and crude clay figurines were found. Final task was clearing the well beside which the goddess rested. The diggers were hopeful that it contained a wealth of objects of art, found it had long ago been rifled, was empty...
...seen on the stage last week, the home of Katerina Izmailova is sordid indeed. It resembles a crude two-story dolls' house with one side missing. Upstairs in a dreary bedroom Zinovi, the merchant, sleeps sluggishly with his boots on while downstairs Katerina, his wife, broods on a couch, paces the floor. She cannot sleep. She has never been taught to read. Her lecherous, spying old father-in-law comes in to charge her with being as cold as a cold fish to her spouse. Because of her there is no heir to the Izmailov name. The puling Zinovi...
Perhaps Mr. O'Casey's play is crude there will no longer be such labels as "smutty" or "immoral." As things stand it cannot be judged fairly if at all. Banning "Dead Eye Dick" did no good, but the writing of better stories on the same topic hastened his demise. Banning eventually defeats its own end, by giving a book great publicity, and by organizing its own opposition. J.A. Christenson...
...headlines died away and the price of crude remained at $1, it became clear last week that the Supreme Court's first anti-New Deal decision was more of a warning to Congress than it was a painful upset to the nation...