Word: rude
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Kittery Point was shocked that Eliza Wall, a well-bred, teen-age schoolgirl, should run after a one-eyed French Canadian kid named Claw Moreau, whose family was on town relief. At first, in school, she had been repulsed by his rude speech, the sinister black patch over his missing eye, the squalor of the wharfside shack where his husbandless mother carelessly raised her children, the fixed lines of bitterness which came from learning early that he was a social outcast. Later Eliza's fear became curiosity; and as she grew older, sympathy...
...Jersey switchboard last week a tired man in a rumpled business suit flipped the key, patiently intoned: "Is this an emergency call?" An irritated woman's voice replied: "Of course it is. I think you are a very rude man. I don't think you deserve to get any more money...
Patterson might drop in on his airline terminal restaurant at Denver, Colo, some morning for breakfast. He will find: 1) door usually locked, 2) one disgruntled, rude waitress on duty, 3) food greasy, unpalatable . . . 4) sanitation at ceiling zero...
Having flown many thousand miles in Air Transport Command-managed lines, where "customers" were nonpaying, yet courteously treated, my introduction to [a] commercial airline's bid for traffic was a rude awakening...
With people who "take up his time," Fred is ruthlessly rude. When TIME asked for an interview, he snorted: "Why? You just have to find someone for your cover every week. . . . Well, it's the same trouble we have with guest stars. I'll cooperate-if it suits my convenience." Recently, when the U.S. Treasury asked him to appear at a bond rally, he declined: "Why should I? I pay my taxes...