Word: rude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solid, sturdy. Anglo-Saxon profanity would be inappropriate and since these occasions are by no means rare in college days, proficiency in the art should be a point of pride. It is a poor compliment to the college man that his best awarding should be likened to the rude, uneducated and really embryonic curses of the pirate...
...Centralization" is one of those modern catch-words which drive men mad. It has indeed become more than a word, for as a fact it has spread everywhere. In journalism, however, one still looks for individualism and unhampered expression of opinion. Such fond fancies received a rude shock in England recently by the sale of the Hulton newspapers. These, numbering seven in all and published in London and Manchester, passed into the hands of Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook. The former is a brother of the late Lord Northcliffe and is said to have been mainly responsible for the latter...
...majority without several notches on his spear-handle. The spirit of this spirited people may be gleaned from the words of one who had dispatched a friend on the banks of a river: "He wanted me to carry him across, but he looked very heavy. Rather than be so rude as to refuse him, I killed...
...Western rodeos came with them to ride or fall for the prize money. This year the purses aggregate $50,000; the riders will include: Mike Hastings, Pinky Gist, Yakima Canutt (half-breed; world's champion in 1921), Howard Tegland, Roy Quick, Paddy Ryan, Soapy Williams, Ike Rude, Powder River Thompson, Hugh Strickland, Mabel Strickland (world's woman champion in 1922), Bonnie McCarroll, Rene Halfley, Bonnie Gray. They pay their own way and come under the following instructions: "If you do your part, your share in the gate receipts should take care of your expenses; if you think...
...course, quite unfair. In what it attempts to do The Outline of Literature is highly successful. Its pages, simple, succinct, easy to read, should give anyone with a modicum of intelligence a good, general, working idea of the entire, fantastic progression of the written word from the first rude scratchings on rocks to the beginnings of the Elizabethan era. Its frequent quotations should inspire in its readers a desire to turn from it to the masterpieces with which it deals. The Bible is well treated, and from a modern viewpoint. Each chapter is followed by an intelligent bibliography. The individual...