Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect of this summary of progress by Sir Thomas Inskip was rather spoiled by rude Winston Churchill's loudly insisting that it was not enough...
...thought they spied a little black Fascist in his wordy woodpile. As if to confound their politics, in Break the Heart's Anger Poet Engle has taken care to announce his revolutionary sympathies. And from various European vantage-points (almost every poem has a different postmark) he hurls rude remarks toward his native land. He calls the Statue of Liberty "you skirt," Manhattan "you great water fowl.'' He has words of measured praise for Karl Marx, though he qualifies them somewhat by adding that Marx was "no economist, neither philosopher." The D.A.R. will not like his comparing...
...days we came to a village where all Indians were completely nude. We saw an airplane caught in the branches of a big tree. A few hours later we met Redfern. He was dressed in a ragged singlet and underpants. He looked like a man over 40, hobbling on rude crutches made of tree branches and liana. He found difficulty at first speaking English, but evidently he had been expecting to be found. Williams gave him a biscuit and some tinned meat...
Sherbrooke, Quebec Sirs: It is with genuine regret that I read James C. Barton's letter in TIME, Jan. 27-rotten taste and damned rude. Let me assure you that some of us Britishers do not have ''so strong a sense of humor." For shame, Mister Barton! J. RICHARDS PETRIE Fredericton...
...convenient gravelled paths, is probably as near the ideal cycling ground as modern civilization will produce. But there is a hitch. This lovely greensward is under the jurisdiction of the hard-hearted Metropolitan District Police. Every afternoon the men in gray swoop down in Neon-lighted cars or rude motorcycles and drive the pleasure seekers from the grass. There are no exceptions. The loveliest bare kneed girl from the halls of Radcliffe, the most pitiful youngster, the most loquacious college boy, all on bicycles are as unwelcome as an epidemic of German Measles. Why should this be? What barm...