Word: rude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberians are the greatest drummers in the world, according to Dr. Strong. They have an astonishing sense of rhythm, despite their rude culture. Speaking of the means of communication he said that the roads are very poor, and a tremendous length of time is taken in construction. Very frequently the roads are washed out, and the natives keep building in the same poor roadbeds...
Baseball writers soon learned that Hornsby had been rude to President Charles A. Stoneham of the Giants. Acting manager of the nine last summer, Hornsby heckled Stoneham when famed Manager John J. McGraw was absent, ill. He suggested he did not like Stoneham; that he would not manage the team until Stoneham evaporated. This was unwise. Stoneham owned Hornsby...
Author Updegraff has chosen Author William J. Locke's favorite scene and peopled it with an odd, rude, fascinating cast. Carnal, slangy, amusing, the story flows swifty through its pages over a strong undercurrent of sorrow and pain...
...Luis Rey, a kind of completion. So at the end, "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." The delicacies of Author Wilder's prose cannot be intimated in so rude a summary of the material of his book, which will be acceptable, like his first novel The Cabala, mainly to those who are sophisticates in both life and letters...
...larger cities, the old man with the rope has been replaced by a rude whippersnapper in striped pants & buttons. In certain office buildings, he lounges against a lever, hurtling the passengers toward the floor which they desire to reach...