Word: rude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which are deposited the Remains of a young Lady, whose artless Beauty, innocence of Mind, and gentle Manners, once obtain'd her the Love and Esteem of all who knew her, But when Nerves were too delicately spun to bear the rude Shakes and Jostlings which we meet with in this transitory World, Nature gave way; she sunk and died a Martyr to Excessive Sensibility...
...third time in three months Harvard men were humiliated. The first time was in November when a rude and ribald number of the Harvard Lampoon (funny monthly) was issued to insult Princeton (TIME, Nov. 22). The second time was when Princeton, having beaten Harvard in football "as usual," and weary of Harvard complaints, severed athletic relations. The third time was last week when a hulking onetime Harvard footballer, one Wynant D. Hubbard, 21, was discovered to have needed money badly enough to forget he was supposed to be a gentleman. Needy Mr. Hubbard had, for a sum, let Liberty (weekly...
...these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude...
...wooden leg was an asset but the good leg was a liability. People looked coldly at the liability, passed by. One Malcolm Norris, 21, beggar, sat in a San Francisco street last week, pondered, arose, hobbled to a railroad track. He bound a rude tourniquet above his knee, thrust out the liability to convert it into an asset, as a train snorted by. The conversion failed; he died three hours later...
...hands and declared: "In England, if any one writes to the newspapers and signs his name, the so-called ethical committee comes down on him and asks what business he has to educate the public. It is a self-constituted body with no right to exist, which writes rude, insulting letters to people. In America you can write freely to the newspapers, educating the people...