Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been Mr. Fathead's ma, I would have batted his ears morning and night for seven years to teach him manners. He ain't got the sense the good Lord puts into a weasel. Why, the first day I saw him, he was rude enough to take off his shirt right before me, while I was standing and talking to him. Just so! And another time he offered me a drink. Imagine! Now if it had been Pa or some grown-up gentleman, it would 'a' been all right; but a child...
...Licking County, Ohio, leading a packhorse laden with apple seed brought from a Pennsylvania cider mill. At suitable spots Johnny stopped to plant his seed in neat rows for the benefit of settlers to come.* Far in advance of the frontier he roamed, following Indian trails or pushing rude boats, always planting new seed and returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave him shelter. With long hair flying and beard full of burrs, he would lope from the forest at evening, accept supper from a solitary homesteader, read aloud from the Bible...
...arch their tongues in effort to make their enunciation intelligible. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon breaks them of those habits by putting thimbles in their nostrils, guide wires in their mouths. Girls with cleft palates are harder to treat than boys, said he, "because girls are ordinarily protected from the rude mockery of other children. Consequently they are apt to take pride in their funny way of talking...
...Custom again struck the unflinching, unbending Robert Gibsons a rude blow last week. They are a middle-aged couple who live at Tappan, N. Y., a New York village atop the Hudson River Palisades, just north of the New Jersey boundary...
Five years ago the Gibsons' Molly Lewis and Sylvia were subject to rude attentions of veterinarians, sent by the State Department of Agriculture to test them for tuberculosis. The test was simple and harmless : the injection of a small quantity of tuberculin, made from the bacteria of tuberculosis, under the animal's skin. If she had the slightest trace of the disease, the cow would develop fever, and be killed as a menace to other cows and to children who drank her milk. Since the Gibsons neither permitted their cows to herd with other cows nor sold their...