Word: uncouth
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Miner Clark was the first to discover the Butte copper veins. The first to develop them on a large scale was blatant, uncouth Marcus Daly. In 1879, a reduction plant was erected near Butte, saving the 400-mile overland haul. The next year, Irishman Daly began to make Butte roar. His men probed the earth night and day. Smoke poured out from 100 furnaces. Lumberjacks hacked down whole forests for timber to hold up excavations and tunnels...
This may be a very witty expression and evidently is intended to convey that those who patronize picture shows are an uncouth or blatant lot. It has been my observation that all classes attend the "movies" and that many of these theaters provide an entertainment which can well be enjoyed by a person of at least the average intelligence. It may be that even your wisecracking theatrical writer is not so much above the average...
Speakeasy hostesses, as Americanized Japanese know, are uncouth, unskilled, uneducated wenches, frequently unwashed, unshriven and ashamed of themselves...
...House was never troubled by ethical problems except when integrity was obviously the best policy. Metternich made the brothers Barons; they bought and fawned their way into the society of five capitals. But they remained shrewd moneylenders, with the noses and eyes of hawks, speaking and writing an uncouth jargon of many dialects of French, German, Yiddish. Count Corti quotes one contemporary comment upon a Rothschild: "King of Jews and Jew of Kings." Another, better, he omits: "Princes in the parlor and pawnbrokers in the kitchen...
When Anne India had accomplished this much of her purpose, she was privileged one summer night to discover Rex sprawled like an inksplotch on the moon-white ground. Around him were empty bottles. From the shadows came uncouth sounds of snoring, soggy laughter, foolish crying. The villagers were still debauching; but Rex was dead...