Word: rude
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...like the L.P.O.," one of them fumed. "I'll teach my grandmother to suck eggs." They confidently expected to have their own way with the music: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Haydn's Symphony No. 73, and the William Tell overture. But they were in for a rude shock. The young maestrina had her own ideas about tempo-generally she likes it faster than the London Philharmonic does-and she rapped them to a halt time & again to tell them...
...became his maman. She was young* and frolicsome, with what one admirer called "the complexion of a rose and the shape of Venus." Baudouin adored his vivacious stepmother and, according to the gossips, is still strongly influenced by her. She got blamed for Baudouin's rude refusal to attend the funeral of Britain's George...
...undertaking to provide three divisions for NATO forces. Another cause was the widespread Danish belief that soldiering itself is an uncouth and unnecessary profession, ill-suited to a nation that has not waged war since 1864.* Item: last year a veteran sergeant major who offended his rookies by using "rude and indecent language" was beaten badly by ten of his men. From a court martial he got 30 days, the attackers got only reprimands. Last week's rebels confidently expected to get off as lightly, for in Danish eyes their actions, though illegal, were "understandable...
...discouragement, and disillusioned about Lyttelton. "He did not behave like a man who sits near the Queen," said Acting Paramount Chief Gomani. "He frowned and was angry before he heard us. He lied when he said our people were so ignorant that they did not understand federation. He was rude. He did not listen to us. We were disappointed, and we must go back to our people and say that the man who sits near the Queen had no time for their chiefs...
...moviegoers who have not yet had a chance to see Limelight and judge it on its own merits, the Legion stand appeared highhanded. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: ". . . The Legion has made the cardinal error of attacking the art in place of the artist . . . To make rude remarks about movies you do not like is an American privilege. But to suppress them ... is not such a privilege, and it is not good sense . . . Charles Chaplin's political activities, if any, can be dealt with at the proper place and time, but to drag his movie into the indictment...