Word: rude
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There was every indication last week that the rebellious Druses who have long fiercely resisted the attempts of France to administer Syria as a League Mandate, are continuing their guerrilla raids upon the French forces, which, with their European war equipment, easily rout these rude but courageous semi-savages whenever an actual pitched battle occurs...
...Farinacci's Selvaggi ("Savages"). He has earned the title "Right Fist of the Fascist Party." He has been denounced by Cardinal Gasparri as a "vulgar demagog." None the less, Mussolini had him made a lawyer so that he might defend the slayers of Matteotti (TIME, March 22). The rude mechanic from Abruzzi secured the virtual whitewashing of his clients from an Abruzzi Fascist jury (TIME, April...
...Doubtless a rude reminder of the Boston ditty...
...Carl Sandberg and Theodore Dreiser for all their seeming rude virility, are as much sloppy sentimentalists as any poets we have," Mr. Robert S. Hillyer 17, said in an interview for the CRIMSON yesterday. Mr. Hillyer, who is a member of the English Department, is also a poet of some note himself...
...godparent to a child, a street, a monument, a steamship, a cocktail or a baseball bat. But there is a fitness to be observed in this business of name-lending. It would be very stupid for a manufacturer of safety-razors to name his product after Admiral Erberle; very rude of a mouthwash maker to call his deodorant "The Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City, who without permission bestowed upon a squat...