Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the Chancellor's speech there were constant interruptions, slamming of desk-lids, rude calls. At one point, the Chancellor was forced to halt by the indescribable racket of Government supporters and Opposition as they vainly and vocally tried to shout one another down. Herr Luther looked pleadingly toward the President's Chair, but Herr Doktor Loebe was not there; he had left the Chamber for a snack of Frankfurters and beer. The Acting President, Herr Riesser, much preoccupied, suddenly became aware that the Chancellor was not speaking, looked up, caught Herr Luther's eye, jumped...
...with a wealthy but quite useless young man, whose parents-firmly forbid the match. Here the lovable "Uncle Anyhow" steps in to fix things up, which he does for everyone, including himself. The scene in which he haltingly proposes marriage--"an absurd suggestion, I know"--to the older daughter, "Rude Min" of the chorus, is in itself, as the sideshow barkers put it, worth the price of admission...
...Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1922. In the latter year, his picture Nude Girl with a Shawl, provoked a long and animated controversy between artists and moralists when it was exhibited at the National Arts Club. Last season, his contribution to the New Society of Artists' Manhattan Exhibition-a rude, graphic painting of the Crucifixion-attracted great attention, as did the recent picture he sent to that gallery-Two Women (TIME, Jan. 12). His paintings are hung in many famed galleries, museums, in the U. S. and Europe. Many are the honors, medals, that have been conferred upon...
...Venerable Nuisance, contains a severe editorial criticism of the grand jury system. Quoting from an article by one Eugene Stevenson (8 Journal of Criminal Law 715), it says: "The grand jury works in secret and therefore very few intelligent critics can see enough of the operation to appreciate how rude, clumsy and inefficient it is. It is the largest most ignorant, most irresponsible ,and oftentimes most partisan tribunal known to our law, and it sits and adjudicates with closed doors...
...fashioned in plot and jest. rude Tom's Cabin polished up and set to music, is the basis of the narrative. There is considerable Negro harmony and soft-shoe shuffling of eminent excellence. There is a troupe of English dancing girls without which few music shows nowadays are complete. There is a pretty prima donna who can sing and a mildly acceptable cast...