Word: uncouthness
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Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish portray quite sympathetically the couple who do well in poverty without knowing it but ruin themselves when they join the moneyed interests. Russell Collins is excellent as the uncouth fellow who remains fanatically honest, no matter where he finds himself...
...necessary to go back to Galileo and Newton, and even to mention Aristotle. The great Greek philosopher, whose shadow dominated scholastic thought in Medieval Europe, declared that a continuous push had to be exerted on a body to keep it in motion. Galileo, who shocked cloistered thinkers by making uncouth experiments, concluded that this was not so-that if a moving body was not acted upon by any forces it would continue in uniform motion indefinitely. This was one of the laws formulated by Newton a generation later. When Newton formulated the principle that the force of gravity is inversely...
There is not so much noise from the Court as there used to be from the sidewalk on the other side when the boys would come rolling home late from whatever it was they had found to come rolling home late from. There used to be uncouth songs and shouts from them sometimes and I would wake up and mutter to myself. Now the only noise that bothers me is the sparrows under the caves and in the ivy near my window. The sparrows start their lively twittering with the first rays of the (to me) invisible...
...otherwise be rather insipid be cause of its indecision and repeated frustration. And so Miss Bankhead remains a completely fascinating exciting person throughout her dreary career of finding her romantic lover to be a rotted; her homely lover to be, when he return a married man; and her shrewd, uncouth manager to her destiny...
...Well," she has often told us, "I did think that Mr. Lincoln looked very-well, homely. His features were large and rather uncouth. I guess it just occurred to me that he would look better if he wore a beard." While laboriously composing her letter to the great man (and she made only one draft of it) she suddenly became aware that the implications of her note might "hurt his feelings." To add a bit of possible salve she accordingly told the President that the "rail fence around your picture looks real pretty." This referred to the pictorial fence bordering...