Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes were vexed with this northern idyll. Grumbled The Crisis, race paper: "Deliberate discourtesy. . . No invitation was extended to Mat Henson, the faithful colored companion and servant of Peary and his only comrade when he discovered the Pole. . . . Rude...
From a dinky town in southeastern Kansas, Girard by name, a rude little newspaper used to yip and snap at President McKinley 35 years ago. As each successive Administration took office, it too was baited by the Kansas weekly. So was Capitalism. In the course of 20 years the paper-called The Appeal to Reason- piled up subscribers by the million. Girard had to be given a first-class postoffice. For all its viciousness, all its revolutionary effort, The Appeal to Reason left no record of accomplishment. But an incident of its career was to prove more important than...
...reported dead. Miss Colbert is his wife. She bears him a son and, thinking she is a widow, is on the point of marrying a French surgeon (Charles Boyer) when she bumps into her husband at a Swiss health resort. He has developed a hacking cough and a rude way with waiters. Miss Colbert here insists on going back to Clive Brook. But when he finds that she really loves the surgeon, Brook goes off to a cafe, drinks himself to death on highballs. Sample dialog: A lady who sees Brook in the cafe saying, "Did you see that...
...travel as a bridge over the depression is to bring any real advantages, be young avoiding the evil of overcrowding the professions, a new fashion for the "American in Paris" must be developed, and the Gershwin tradition abandoned: Americans, like the rude British, have been in the habit of carrying their bath-tubs and their customs with them in their peregrinations; serious study of foreign life can be made only if the traveler lays aside his attitudes, and adopts those of his hosts, as he adopts their language. When the American student is willing to do this perhaps he will...
Letty Lynton (MGM). The heroine of this picture further enlightens cinemaddicts on the pains of promiscuity. Letty Lynton (Joan Crawford) not only has lovers. She has one who is patently the lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors...