Word: impertinente
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The Memoirs, published installment by installment in 1825, were a tremendous sensation, going through 31 printings in a year. Though never salacious, they are packed with intimately impertinent revelations; their tart dialogue and sharp observations of the stupidities of the gentlemen friends and customers make a racy and amusing picture...
In Venezuela to horse around with thoroughbreds, Prince Aly Khan was greeted at the Caracas airport by newsmen addressing him as "milord." The formality soon gave way to impertinent questions, which Aly answered with bubbling good humor. Asked one reporter: "How much did [exwife No. 2] Rita Hayworth cost you...
The Communists themselves fell to quarreling openly. Some complained that "the kulaks have become impertinent"; the Communist Central Committee had to announce that it would not tolerate the "recurrent anti-peasant mood." Pudgy, bullet-headed Old Bolshevik Matyas Rakosi, no longer undisputed boss of Hungary, decried the "danger of right...
Phlox & Talks. The Russians, in no mood to niggle when they had such a good thing, welcomed the travelers like long-lost brothers. They sent a special VIP plane to Helsinki to pick them up, put them up lavishly in the Sovietskaya Hotel in suites complete with pianos and radios...
London's impertinent music halls lampoon Joe McCarthy, Noel Coward or anybody else (except royalty) who crosses the news. But last week a songwriter got too saucy with Anthony Eden and ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain, who has power to grant or refuse theatrical licenses without explanation. Three...