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Spoofing matinee idols is not the newest of sports, and Present Laughter needs much fresher turns & twists than it ever gets. The best scenes are too much alike, the others never get going. Almost everyone is ostentatiously rude, but almost no one is witty. It's partly, perhaps, because Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem...
...from the Chicago Animal Welfare League for placing a pig in peril. She put a pig in a pen at the Galloping Hills Horseshow, and blue-blooded jumpers jumped in & out. Soon a humane officer turned up at the Swift mansion-"stormed into the house and was very rude," said Mrs. Swift. He got the gate. "There's no one who loves animals more than I do," cried Mrs. Swift to the press. "I wouldn't hurt that pig for anything-took him home all safe and happy in my station wagon when the show was over...
...When Denver women speak," it sniffed, "it sounds to me like the grinding of a buzz saw. Their voices are harsh and grating. They send shivers up my spine. Even those who have gone to such good Eastern schools as Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, etc., speak in an absolutely rude and unrefined manner...
...once made (or is supposed to have made) a classic retort to Isadora Duncan's eugenic proposal: "Madam, what if our child should have your brain and my body?" Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace has spent much of his working life investigating the implications of G.B.S.'s rude rejoinder...
...Marshal" Chang Tso-lin, who drank tiger blood and warlorded it over Manchuria until his assassination in 1928, the Young Marshal kidnaped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the fantastic Sian incident of 1936. Eventually he freed the Gissimo and surrendered himself, crying: "I, Hsueh-liang, am by nature rude and uncouth. . . . Blushing with shame, I receive from you . . . the punishment I deserve...