Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West writes crudely, theatrically, about crude, theatric, low-life types; is crudely effective. She seems to know her Harlem, her thieves' argot, her underworld women...
Because a Spaniard in Peru discovered just 300 years ago that crude quinine cured malaria, most devastating of diseases the world over,** a small group of learned botanists and pharmacologists met in St. Louis last week to celebrate...
This One Man. Marvin and Saul Holland were brothers and burglars. Marvin was weak, tender, soulful. Saul was strong, crude, tough. Marvin saw that if Saul had his characteristics he (Saul) would be an extraordinary person, more particularly a better husband to his wife. So one night when Marvin and a friend were cracking a safe, Marvin shot and killed the master of the house. Executed in the electric chair, Marvin somehow managed to transfer his soul to Saul, who thereupon became possessed not only of strength but of sensibilities...
...Said Colyumist-Critic Theophilus Wells of the Amsterdam News (Harlem): "Probably it will be an interesting magazine when it makes up its mind just what type ... it wants to be. Its first issue is a mongrel affair . . . should have prominent writers among its contributors. . . . The only explanation [of the crude art work] I can suggest is the somewhat improbable one that Editor Abbott himself drew the pictures." The Publisher. Amiable, courteous Robert Sengstacke Abbott is 60 years old, has three automobiles (Rolls-Royce, Cunningham, Fierce-Arrow) ; has traveled extensively in Europe and South America. A Republican, he does not dabble...
...Monsignor Seipel was ready to plunge Austria into civil war. Out of such a conflict might come restoration of the Throne of Austria to famed "Little Otto," the Habsburg pretender styled "His Most Catholic Majesty the Emperor and King" ? but were not things becoming somewhat too premature and crude...