Word: impertinente
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Few foreigners have met Stalin, none has come to know him well. He has been interviewed by U. S. Newsmen Walter Duranty, Eugene Lyons, Roy Wilson Howard. Author Emil Ludwig and Professor Jerome Davis each once had long, serious sessions with him. Playwright George Bernard Shaw and his friend, Lady...
"The little hats of last July, those impertinent hats of peacetime, those portents of happiness, unstable, tiny, poised comically over the nose, had suddenly become absurd. . . .
One "sonofagun" among Louisiana jobholders was at that moment being returned from a quick trip he took to Canada after dropping some $500,000 of Louisiana State University's funds in the wheat market. Dr. James Monroe Smith, who resigned as president of the university just before he skipped...
The rogue most beloved in the U. S. is a precocious, conceited, impertinent, fast-cracking ventriloquist's dummy named Charlie McCarthy. On Sunday nights from eight till nine EST, when the U. S. radio audience reaches its peak for the week, almost a third of the nation tunes in...
>TIME has always made a practice of answering questions it considers newsworthy. Of late TIME has been increasingly flooded with inconsequential, idle or impertinent queries; prints the examples above as scarecrows.-ED.