Word: uncouthness
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...always believed that Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry and James Monroe (Virginians all) had some small part in establishing "the essential faith of America." And the Jamaica-born bastard Alexander Hamilton of New York, the illiterate pirate Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, the ribald Abraham Lincoln of Kentucky and Illinois, the uncouth Walt Whitman of Brooklyn-did these have no part in the work...
Secret Subway. The Scientific American led its first issue with a picture of a new railroad car, captioned: "Let any person contrast the awkward and uncouth cars of '35 with these superbly splendid long cars . . . which are calculated to avoid atmospheric resistance and contribute ease and comfort to passengers, while flying at the rate of 30 or 40 miles per hour...
...result of all this foolishness, which incidentally, includes one of the cleverest dream sequences we've seen, is that the uncouth sand-hog, whom, Claudette bates, detests, despises--only we know better is transformed by some hocus-pocus into an eligible, even desirable future mate...
Nationalism is rising all over Latin America. This nationalism, however uncouth or suspect, springs from the emerging popular forces of Latin America. With those forces, U.S. officialdom has very little contact. They are the only native elements which are apt to admire U.S. institutions, welcome U.S. influence, make Good Neighborliness a practical reality...
...Boss Wrigley. As dignified as the field hockey costume of New Eng land's fashionable boarding schools, it still had the provocativeness of a Sonja Henie skating skirt. Scout Hamilton's job was satisfactory too. He had turned down several outstanding players because they were either too uncouth, too hardboiled, or too masculine...