Word: impertinente
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Ickes nonetheless emerges as an oddly appealing figure. In his own view, he lived in a world full of the rascally, the inept and the misguided. He was so suspicious of evil that he organized a private detective force to keep the Interior Department toeing the mark. He balefully noted...
No one can contest the argument that a position on the Review is subject to misuse, personal aggrandizement, the promotion of base ends. Every organization must provide itself with the means of dealing with incorrigibles and malcontents. The Review has been functioning ably for some sixty-six years. Established membership...
"They have brought about the imprisonment of no one and, with one possible exception, the only teachers dismissed are those who have refused to answer questions which are not illegal or necessarily impertinent . . .
Cardano usually won and people hated him. His expertness at cards and craps was not the only reason, for he readily admitted to being "cunning," "crafty," "sarcastic," "impertinent," "grudging," "envious," "treacherous," "miserable," "hateful," "lascivious," "disagreeable," "rude," "obscene," "lying," "obsequious," "irresolute," and "indecent." But he hotly denied being a bastard. It...
Two ranking rivals on U.S. foreign policy, Democrat Averell Harriman and Republican John Foster Dulles, sat down before the cameras in a CBS Manhattan television studio one night last week for half an hour of what television likes to call political debate. They began in the gentlemanly manner of statesmen...