Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arizona, New Mexico and Utah plateaux the Navaho Indians constitute a sort of peasantry, crowding into low, flat adobe shacks. Water is scarce and sanitation crude. That explains why so many Navahos have contracted trachoma, highly contagious eye disease. The eyelids become granulated and sticky. The victim squints, often becomes blind. Already one out of every four or five Indians has trachoma. Every third child has it, and at the reservation school at Fort Defiance, Ariz., every other pupil suffers. Aroused, Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Indian Bureau, Department of the Interior, last week ordered the Fort Defiance school...
Significance. The novel is poorly written. Except for its use of the Harding Administration as subject matter, it would be dull-reading. Even as a piece of muckraking, it is unnecessarily exaggerated and crude. However, it stands as one of the few instances in U. S. history where contemporary politics have been used as the basis of a novel. In Europe this type of fiction is no rarity...
...lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play, one that feels itself easily superior to the crude realisms of ordinary theatre. Thus the hero's papa's whiskers are a haughtily braided Turkish towel, the sage councilors' hats, victrola records. The realistic furniture of the stage is transcended by the art of dramatic construction, so nobody is annoyed because the hero appears...
...Winwood plays his uncertain spouse. She also plays the Hungarian Rhapsody on a player-piano that in one performance, at least, failed to synchronize with her fingers. Such embarrassments, eve r-p resent threats in the theatre, are sometimes boons to bored audiences. Future performances should refine the generally crude staging; but it is doubtful whether the play, as written, can ever succeed in expressing with even moderate success, the cleverly conceived theme...
...consumes 75% of all the latex (sap) milked from rubber trees throughout the world. Great Britain, with Dutch assistance, controls the world's rubber supplies and, through its (Sir James) Stevenson Restriction Plan, the prices of crude rubber...