Word: rude
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...York City they received a radiogram from the League of American Writers, summoning them to a banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Thinking they had been rescued by the Emergency Rescue Committee, Authors Mann and Werfel were puzzled. But not wishing to seem rude, they said: all right, they would come...
Morgan, his friend, the "elderly and well preserved Mrs. Douglas," her duenna and a cadging Italian courier. Mr. Morgan, said Mr. Fry, was rude everywhere. When, off Ancona, a choral society serenaded the Morgan yacht, "they shocked Morgan very much by asking for money and they were rudely refused. It was not so much that he minded parting with money as that the request was a blow to the cherished illusion that everything was done out of pure admiration for his personality, just for his beaux yeux. I always wondered that his mistresses in New York got such substantial subsidies...
...Hitler let the British down; nothing happened. There grew up the curious notion that they could win the war "comfortably." Sacrifice on a national scale was not asked, hence not made. For eight precious months Britain slept on, until there was a rude noise in Norway...
...Hosts were horrified because their young guests wore their daytime shirts to bed, complained that they were often verminous, untruthful, rude, quarrelsome. Most common complaint: bedwetting. Usual reason: the emotional upset of leaving home...
...eating with game. Doctors and dietitians prescribed it for dyspeptics and people who were allergic to other cereals. Prices rose (to around $1 per lb., retail, for packaged wild rice). Greedy whites moved into the rice fields of north-central Minnesota, began to push out the Chippewas. Motorboats and rude, unaccustomed hands destroyed the wild plants, breaking nature's cycle of renewal...