Word: ruder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plebeian spirits did well enough. A few drunks were soon reeling here & there. The dignified staggers of U.S. junior officers drew many a disparaging glance and word from moralizing chauffeurs clustered at the entrance. Only the waiters and bartenders seemed unhappy. As the afternoon wore on they grew progressively ruder, slopping fresh drinks into dirty glasses and brushing away all complaints...
...last week the neighbors learned differently. Detectives clapped the "clergy" of the Community Mission 'into jail, and with them a lay brother named William J. Hager. The "Archbishop," it developed, was known in ruder circles as "Dutch Willy." Father Appleby had been convicted of rape in 1927. Father Norman was known to the police as Raymond...