Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SERMONS-Margot Asquith- Doran ($2.50). Her alert countenance, her boundless arrogance, her crude curious argot, her inquisitive mind with its eagerness to disclose whatever trifles it may contain, have made the Countess of Oxford and Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink...
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...Socialist nebula as a misty organism of a more or less reddish hue, with parties and particles, creeds, organs, persons and programs whirling round & round, and getting nowhere except in Soviet Russia, which is east of Europe and therefore does not count. Red footstools, red neckties, intentionally crude cartoons, stuffy parlors and garrets, late hours, morose arguments, "long-haired men and short-haired women," dirty fingernails and a strange courage, are among the peculiar properties of Socialism...
...Carroll regularly amused his brothers and sisters at home by writing and illustrating stories and poems, which he sent to them in the form of a magazine. An interesting side light on Carroll's sense of humor is given by the signatures under each drawing, for he signed his crude renderings with the names of great artists, such as Rembrandt, and Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...Present production costs in the Grozny oil fields are lower than before the War, while in the Baku fields these costs are about equal to those of 1913. The output of gasoline from crude oil has been increased from the pre-War figure of 0.4% to over 0.7%. Deterding also mentions the Soviet coal industry. It will be interesting to learn that coal production for the year just ended was 39% higher than the figure given by Deterding...