Word: rude
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...Rock Island & Pacific train on which he was riding had plunged through a trestle into a flooded creek. Ten persons had drowned. Showman Gest described the accident repeatedly, volubly to newsgatherers : how the cars had rolled over on their sides in the water; how he, asleep, tad had a "rude" awakening; how he grabbed in-the dark, caught his watch-chain hanging from the upper berth, bashed through the window, clambered...
...paused for an instant to take a card from an attendant with which to stake her seat. It was a fatal pause. Sir Frederick Hall kept going, got there first, plumped his panting form down upon the coveted seat and tried to look as though he had not been rude...
...many persons who have hoped that the Phi Beta Kappa Society might stand for a scholarship higher than that attainable by the mere grinding out of course grades, its conduct in the Spring elections has brought a very rude awakening. When there were but two days left until the final announcement of honors by the faculty the Phi Beta Kappa Society met and elected the last twenty-five men from the Class...
...prejudice and ignorance, but none the less it is adhered to with a varying degree of conviction by a large number of Americans to whom the word Socialist is synonymous with anarchy, bolshevism, and bomb throwing. The period through which Mr. MacDonald's government holds office will surely be rude awakening for the members of this school who will have enough interest to follow it through to its close...
...paintings was a Crucifixion, painted by Piero della Francesca (circa 1406-92) on a tiny wood panel (14" x 16"). Into a golden sky, grievously cracked with age, were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity of Italian Primitives which is pronounced charming by modern sophisticates. This painting, according to gallery officials, had been appraised by experts at $800,000. The other, a similarly styled Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1406-69), was said to have been appraised...