Word: rude
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...health-office laboratory to have a bottle of milk examined. "Is nobody here?" she asked of Tom, who was alone in the lab. "Madam, something is wrong with your eyes," replied Mboya. Stomping out, the woman huffed: "I must have my work done by Europeans. This boy is very rude...
Teacup Serenade. It was the touchiest point in Macmillan's Africa tour. So far, he had been saying amiable nothings (TIME, Feb. 8). Now he hardly dared be rude to a "Commonwealth Club" member, even though it had just proclaimed its intention of becoming a republic (no longer recognizing Queen Elizabeth as its sovereign). If he spoke too sharply, he might increase South Africa's harsh feeling of isolation without changing its policies. His hosts had serenaded him with a rattle of teacups and surrounded him with politicians, businessmen and plain folks, all of them white...
...that means tips to cab drivers, waiters, waitresses, barbers and the whole lot who have their greedy hands out to be greased by a tip in payment not for services rendered and to be paid for, but as an inducement for them to refrain from being nasty and rude...
...bellhop or the country maid, but flies straight to the inmost circle of society, where the crustiest tycoons really do unbend, all wives are beautiful, and well-tailored bohemians are welcome. In a sense, he adores the lions and tigresses of a world often so polite that it is rude, and so frantic that it is bored...
Where the rude din of this . . . century Can trouble him no more...