Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pungent, piercing comments during several months that he spent as guest critic with that newspaper (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, et seq.). During those same months, Critic Newman was treated to a close-range view of the great U. S. pastime of discovering profound significance in artistry previously considered crude, slapstick or otherwise lowly-Charles Chaplin, Ring Lardner, Harlem, George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman...
...chamber. Compression makes the air so hot that ignition is automatic and the explosion gradual and more powerful than the complex explosion obtained with a spark plug. No generator or distributor is needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude oil-almost any oil will do. The Foos engineers maintained that their new contrivance was so perfected that even buttermilk, when introduced to its cylinder, would explode with sufficient violence to propel a stranded motorist from a wayside farm to the nearest fuel station...
...That the crude rock is crushed to nut size, then pulverized, then heated to drive off moisture, when it is ready for commerce as plaster paris or as stucco...
...Jones is a public official. Certain interests want a bill passed. There is no crude attempt to hand Jones money. Jones votes right, and later is given a part in some good business deal where he can make an excellent profit with no risk of loss...
...others interested assemble at her summer home. Moments of violent sleuthing are followed by moments in which the cast strive to act exclusive. Then there is a song and dance to confuse the spectator further. Of all of this the songs were best. The rest was indolent; a crude entertainment...