Word: uncouthness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giant is about Texas and it has already had the commercial good luck to annoy a lot of Texans. Running as a serial in the Ladies' Home Journal, it began to make enemies with the very first installment. For the Texas seen in Giant is filled with rowdy, uncouth men & women whose vulgarity runs second only to the flash wealth that nurtures...
...Texas supreme court. A man injured in a jeep accident claimed double indemnity ($200 a month), allowed by his insurance policy if the accident involved a "pleasure car." The court turned him down. Said the majority, including two World War II veterans: "[The jeep] is a rugged, uncouth vehicle without beauty of line or body, with no suggestion of comfort and obviously intended for hard service rather than pleasure...
Aniela, it develops, "was miraculous in the dark . . . Her great arms clutched about him in a frenzy. She made uncouth noises." Nevertheless David, "a brilliant young architect [who] had done a few big things bigly," is soon rolling in a snowbank with somebody else, "a pink avalanche of loveliness" named Mary. "There . . . with her sables and his great coat for blankets, David wooed a wintry Tsarina swathed in sables . . . The snow gave the deed the absolution of its own purity...
Westbrook Pegler got into the act with a pious statement of un-Peglerian mildness: "It is a great tragedy that in this awful hour the people of the U.S. must accept . . . the nasty malice of a President whom Bernard Baruch . . . called a rude, uncouth, ignorant man. Let us pray...
...Devout Sex. Far from being an "enthusiast" himself, Msgr. Knox is sometimes unable to suppress a faint shudder at the uncouth excesses with which his subject compels him to deal. But for the most part he treats his material with the warm antiquarian relish of a jurist whose hobby is delving into the idiosyncrasies of safecrackers...