Word: uncouth
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...grey, rusty transport edged with khaki ruffling hitched silently toward the wharf. Ashore, British officers waited nervously for uncouth antics in the Aussie manner...
...plenipotentiaries have had trouble with sartorial protocol since the days of Benjamin Franklin. When Minister Franklin appeared before the King of France in plain brown velvet knee breeches he was called uncouth. When Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes refused to expose his shanks to the Court of St. James's in knee breeches he stirred comment. When Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy showed up at the same court in a tail coat, someone said he looked like "one of the less important waiters...
...civic and general corruption by jumping from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. When the fake is about to be disclosed, the girl gets her job back by suggesting that an appropriate John Doe be hired and interviewed daily. For this purpose the paper engages a gawkingly uncouth but handsome bush-league baseball pitcher who is out of work. John Doe's press and radio utterances, written by the girl, are naive but manly sermons on Love Thy Neighbor, and they touch local and then national hearts...
...seconds) and is the greatest tap dancer in existence. Also easily appreciated is Paul Gerrits, an urbane, roller-skating master of ceremonies, and big, pasty-faced Red Marshall, who serves up vintage burlesque, including a Pullman-car scene entitled Red Rails in the Sunset. In the midst of his uncouth designs on women who are merely trying to retire, he announces: "I usually go to sleep as soon as my feet touch the pillow." Among the less comprehensible" features of the performance are a song which compares love to heaven, hell and a Turkish delight, and another called April...
...Madden might still have been a stumblebum had he not won 200 "clams" shooting craps one night in a waterfront dive. Determined "to quit being a uncouth bum," he bought a case of whiskey and a second-hand cash register, opened a speakeasy in Manhattan's famed Fifties. One night, after some of his customers had got into a skull-cracking brawl that brought the cops swarming in. Barkeep Madden, plenty irate, took his pencil from behind his ear. poured out a piece of his mind, pasted it on the mirror behind his bar: "Just for your information...