Word: rude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These triumphs were achieved by Richard Knight because: 1) his appearance was formidable and extraordinary; 2) in his calm Texas drawl he could be more shocking, more amusing, frequently more rude than the people he was subtly courting. He was also a clever lawyer. His business thrived. He was not merely asked to Newport and Palm Beach; he was invited again & again. He had hundreds of acquaintances, few intimate friends...
...August day in 1914, Woodrow Wilson appointed to the Court his Attorney General, hotheaded, hard-headed Mr. McReynolds of Tennessee. Legend has it that Woodrow Wilson regretted no appointment more than that one. And legend also gave Mr. Justice McReynolds a bad name: a man intolerably rude, antiSemitic, savagely sarcastic, incredibly reactionary, Puritanical, prejudiced...
...ring's got rude pictures...
This hopeful suggestion, unrealistic as a poppy dream and sadly typical of Chinese politics, quickly got two rude wake-up knocks. The U. S. State Department was not disposed "to regard the suggestion seriously." The Japanese Embassy in China was disposed to regard it as ridiculous. "Wang's statement," the Embassy sneered, "reflects his mentality...
...Hapgood's fellow travelers the one who comes off best is, curiously enough, Mabel Dodge Luhan. He admits that she is sometimes caustic, callous, rude, jealous, possessive, vindictive, and worse. But he knows that these traits stem from her "eager love of 'It'-the infinite-with which she wants to be naturally, strongly, connected. She wants to repose quietly and physically on the bosom of God." That Hutchins "Hapgood can understand...