Word: rude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gradual, that the entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most...
...confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore was the shock received by many contributors to the American Red Cross last week, when that organization's executive head, Judge John Barton Payne, made clear that the American Red Cross had withdrawn from relief work in China...
...prodding of the Grand Rabbi began, and the rude inspectors noted two small leather boxes which he carried with particular care. If it is difficult to estimate the Grand Rabbi's reactions, it is easy to understand the immediate suppositions of the young inspectors. "Open those boxes," they cried. "No," answered the Grand Rabbi. "I won't. Not those." The young men therefore opened the boxes themselves and discovered in them the laws of Moses but not a single diamond. They were the Grand Rabbi's precious tvillim...
...Being parents principally of debutantes they seem interested only in the ultimate tensile strength of the bond between body and soul in their daughters. The appeals so far advanced by Harvard authorities interested in preventing students in the two lower classes from forming entangling alliances have met with a rude neglect. In spite of the theory that college men should he allowed to produce their own salvation without supervision from above, a certain protection should still be allowed the younger of them from allurement that no longer tempts burnt children in the upper classes, Humanitarianism, even if unsupported...
Screaming their mad cries in the streets of great U. S. cities, swooping, circling in angry and despairing arcs, manned by a rude, desperate soldiery, taxicabs are to be seen, making indirect money for their inventor, John Hertz. With this money John Hertz, propelled by the gracious irony which controls the careers of capitalists, buys himself horses. Some of the horses he gives to his wife, a lady Republican of note; he keeps them in his Leona Stables, at Gary...