Word: impertinente
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Columnist Michael Foot, Laborite M.P., said that "American political ideology really is about 30 years behind Europe," saw a "whirlwind brewing on the other side of the Atlantic." The Conservative Daily Mail chided the embittered critics: "Such comment is as impertinent as it is stupid. The Americans have every ground...
In her books (China to Me, The Soong Sisters, Hong Kong Holiday) impertinent, casual Emily Hahn proved that she was the only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever...
"I demand you subside," cried Murray. "You've been . . . impertinent arid insulting."
Died. Sir Ronald Lindsay, 68, moose-tall (6 ft. 3 in.) aloof British Ambassador to the U.S. (1930-1939); of coronary thrombosis; in Bournemouth, England. Forced to call his first press conference when a frustrated U.S. press demanded more news about the impending 1939 visit of the King & Queen, Sir...
As comedy, I Love a Soldier suffers from a confusion of values, which is likely to outrage rather than amuse most moviegoers. Barry Fitzgerald contributes a brief but telling bit as a richly impertinent, elfish little cable-car gripman (conductor). But despite his efforts, this idyll of young love resembles...