Word: impertinente
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Author Aiken's method is impressionistic. He makes no attempt to answer such comparatively impertinent questions as: Did his hero ever marry Vivien? What did he do for a living? What caused his death? But in a space seven times as short as an ordinary novel Aiken has compressed...
Portraits in Miniature is a short book (214 small pages) but contains 18 biographies in parvo. They are like unusually well-written, extremely urbane short stories. Some of their subjects: Elizabethan Sir John Harington, who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Jacobean Dr. North, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), whom...
"Mr. Hoover summons France to execute herself as he would summon Nicaragua," observed L'Ere Nouvelle, "and yet the whole world is astonished because we make a wry face!" Scattered through the text of conservative La Liberty's appraisal of Mr. Hoover were such epithets as "parvenue insolence," "nouveau riche...
During the hearing, smart Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, stanch Tammany man who always wears an orchid in his buttonhole, objected to the admission of privately secured testimony, accused Referee Seabury of "prejudging the case." Tall, patrician Inquisitor Seabury flushed and said quietly: "I consider that remark grossly impertinent."
The Vagabond returns from vainly trying to incite a revolution in Nicaragua to find those greatest of academic blasphemies, the examinations, apparently over. The r. p. m. of Nicaragua is not what it used to be. He returns from gun-running in the face of the marines to a quiet...