Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soups and serums were soon on their way to Nome when the Coast Guard ordered three vessels of the Bering Sea patrol to proceed there at once and share supplies with stricken inhabitants, who by this time were huddled in rude barracks and eating in a community kitchen. A food-laden boat was hurrying up from Seattle. Alaska Steamship Co., aware that not more than two round trips could be made to Nome before the Arctic winter clamped down, cut rates on food and building material in half. Luckiest break for Nome, however, was a Lomen boat which had just...
Bugles hushed 5.000 persons assembled in the hills near Ashland, Ky. last Sunday afternoon. Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon bade them all a deep, drawling welcome. His wife uncovered a bronze tablet. And a rude little log cabin was officially christened "Traipsin" Woman...
...playing, half-naked bucks stomping the stage and pretty dark-skinned girls wriggling excitedly. But the police were not disturbed by the stage doings, nor by the fact that the producers had radical leanings and called themselves "workers." Trouble was that the 23rd Street Unity Theatre, a small rude hall which used to be a beauty shop, had a licensed capacity for only 150 persons whereas 300 spectators were squeezing inside nightly, crowding the aisles and hard, wooden benches...
This diplomatic encouragement to start the flow of U. S. machinery to U. S. S. R. -on credit-received a rude rebuff three days later. Secretary Hull, who recently had the pleasure of recognizing Russia, might have been expected to respond by using the State Department's unofficial power to O. K. loans to the Soviet by U. S. bankers. But last week the House of Representatives quietly passed Senator Johnson's bill forbidding the making of loans to any government in default to the U, S. The Kerensky Government left a legacy of $187,000,000 owing...
Quite sincerely, when you are rude to the present occupant of the Throne, you touch the kind old daddy, not of the aristocracy, but of millions of impoverished, overtaxed Englishmen in the middle classes who see in the King's outlook on life one of the few remaining pieces of sentiment they can still permit themselves...