Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kaaay." Senator Ashurst, the soul of oldtime gallantry, would hardly be so rude as to argue against a lady, but it so happened that the arguments he rose to refute were last week most strikingly expressed by a woman. Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband, Sinclair Lewis, wrote It Can't Happen Here) wrote...
...Department of English shys away from Public Speaking much as it would from a mad dog, locking up the rude intruder in an academic cellar along with a bone or two. Since to the scholars of literature oral English is not quite respectable and nowheres near par with the other sides of the language, the arrangements for courses in speaking are farcical, tending to discourage the students. The three half courses, for only one of which is credit given, are the minimum the Department thinks it can establish without starting an open revolt. Professor Packard has built the nucleus...
...newshawks or Secretary Morgenthau had expected to find the old man in a mellow mood on laying down his duties, they received a rude surprise. Taciturn Chief Moran's mood was black and rueful. A reporter asked if his recent absence from duty was due to sickness...
Talk from Amherst sound big, but to Huey, who has no Fearon that account, that just Amherst-like jingoism. Lady Luck will double-cross Jordan today, for Newcomb-ers will have Watt I call rude a Wilkening, Visitors' hope will deKlein, and then they Lamb out of here quick. It Snow-ball game to Harvard--just more practice. Huey sees Winter day by Adlis 19-0 score. Also if Yanks not too Rolfe with bats, Fitzsimmons Ott to take third game of ball, Landis means series goes to Giants. Score today, Giants 5, Yanks...
...January 1923, the "will" is a contemporary character analysis of the Communist high command. Of Stalin, Lenin says: "He has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution. Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes unsupportable in the office of General Secretary. Therefore, I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin...