Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this morning's CRIMSON I was made to say that the Winthrop House Christmas play was purposely designed as crude affair for the reason that at Winthrop House we lacked capable actors and an appreciative audience. This is untrue. The play demands acting of a very high quality, and we have never lacked appreciation of our efforts...
...wells in the fabulous Texas Spindletop field turned to water. By 1913 the Mellons had built Gulf Oil into a dividend-paying property. By 1929 its net income had averaged $25,000,000 a year for nearly a decade. It was the world's third largest producer of crude when William Larimer Mellon retired from the presidency in 1931. He and Uncle Andrew surveyed the list of Mellon first-string executives and selected as Gulf's new president a lean, handsome man of 51 named James Frank Drake...
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
...Cleopatra is a gauge, the Romans were still somewhat "nouveau riche." They were also provincial, priggish as regards the women, crude as regards the men. On the other hand the Egyptians portrayed here are scarcely subtle. The humor in "Cleopatra" is sometimes excellent, but one never knows whether it was intended, and, therefore, whether to give the producer the credit or not. It would have been wiser to have less platinum blondes in the supporting cast, they seem a trifle anachronous when they predominate in the Egyptian population. Do not expect history, and go when feeling a little mellow...
Meantime the industry tossed in secret strife over the price of crude oil which has been $1 per bbl. for a year. After a few small buyers boldly chopped the posted price to 60?, Col. Thompson swore that the Texas Railroad Commission would shut down every well in the State if the major companies followed suit...