Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...front, the men were singing the original John Brown song. Four months later when Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, on her first visit to Washington, heard the soldiers from all sides singing this song, inspired by its stirring melody, yet not a little shocked by the rude pathos of its words, she composed here immoral 'Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...verse, too, thinks hard. Even "The Fawn" forgets to be a child in reason, and prettily woos his "nymph" (who, by the way, as an oak-dweller ought to have been a "dryad") with pantheistic appeal. The rude Scythian shepherd of Marlowe, brooding upon the unattainable, has grown "very weary" of his life,' and meditates upon the theme of vanity with the unction of a Stephen Phillips. And his rough soldiers as they march, sing with Shellevan opulence of fancy...
...Mexican antiques, which have been taken from excavations at Zumpango and Tecomaxochill. The collection consists of Crania, pottery, stone implements, soap stone vessels and small human effigies, one of which is a remarkably fine specimen. There are also beads of gadeite and shell, stone pendants and car ornaments, and rude figures of stone, fashioned from discarded axes...
...force; and though he concludes that the evidence upon the whole favors intercollegiate sports, he succeeds in shaking the reader's faith in much which may have been unquestioned. In fact to those who do not require good reasons for what they approve his treatment may seem a little rude. It is the kind of article which sets one thinking...
...results of evolution, continuing over a long period of time. From its origin the theatre was closely connected with the worship of he god Dionysys; tragedy began with the narration and then the performance of the adventures of the god by a chorus of satyrs, who danced and sang rude songs. Soon the subject broadened into other fields and the dramatic element increased at the expense of the choral element. But the conservation of the stage and perhaps of the priests of Dionysus preserved in the satyr play an interesting memorial of earlier days. Each tragic poet presented...