Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty-one years ago in Cincinnati eleven Negroes who called themselves the "Colored Christian Singers" shambled onto the platform of the old Vine Street Congregational Church. All eleven had been slaves, eaten hominy and bacon breakfasts in rude, smoky cabins, worked all day in cottonfields, sung spirituals in the light of the moon around their cabin doors. But they sang no spirituals that night in Cincinnati. Spirituals were slave songs. Accordingly they sang orthodox hymns and temperance pieces which made less impression on the audience than the rusty, ill-fitting suits the men wore and the women's dresses...
...Joan Blondell, the wise little girl from Three Rivers, Illinois, and Wallace Ford, the rip-roaring cow-puncher from Peach Springs, Arizona, in each other's arms. It's very sweet, and all so terribly exciting. The horrid audience just would insist on laughing the rude things...
...September, Wrest Point and Annapolis agreed to disagree about football eligibility rules, scheduled a game for 1932. Equally unexpected last week was the news of another football reconciliation- between Princeton and Harvard, whose falling out in 1926 followed a game that Harvard thought was too rough, and a particularly rude issue of the Harvard Lampoon. Athletic Directors William J. Bingham of Harvard and Thurston J. Davies of Princeton issued a terse joint statement: "Arrangements have been completed for two football games between Harvard and Princeton, the first to be played in Cambridge on Nov. 3, 1934, the second in Princeton...
...sight. He was affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way." Reynolds Rogers attended the County Republican convention, made speeches in which he said he was an intimate of Presidents Roosevelt and Hoover. He campaigned on behalf...
...gnomes, dwarfs and such little folk who live in crevices, caves, dells, almost any place where they can hide from the natural men whom they often mortally hate & fear. Well may it be that the bitter Rumpelstilzchens of folklore date back to a long-lost pygmy race or to rude Neolithic men routed by the tale-telling ancestors of the Brothers Grimm. One striking point to Canon MacCulloch's thesis: fairies usually dislike iron and such wrought wares, prefer rocks, as would stone age skulkers...