Word: uncouthness
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...great novelist. It is an illustration not only of his dramatic restraint, but of his intellectual honesty and of his deep understanding as well. For, to anyone who knows New England, Eph and Sue are honest 'pictures, they embody all the characteristics and habits, all the simplicity, all the uncouth, rum-drinking, ruddy cheeked vigor which is the badge of your New England fisherman...
...large gilt heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit runs out on the stage with Magnolia's dinner pail, a feedbag full of oats. Broadway Joe takes the bag, pats the midget, blandly remarking: "That's her son. This is her fodder." Assisted by uncouth Dave Chasen, Mr. Cook finally removes his hack and horse from the stage. Messrs. Cook & Chasen have provided themselves with trainmen's caps. They pour coal into Magnolia's flank. She lights up, chuffs smoke through her nostrils, trembles from flashing fire box to cowcatcher, and finally roars...
...wood, the seat triangular, the back, arms, and logs loaded with turnery, and carved and turned in the most uncouth and whimsical forms," is the way Horace Walpole described the chair common to the county of Chesire and similar to the chair of the President of Harvard. The chair, which has been used in the College for the purpose of conferring degrees on Commencement day for time beyond the memory of man, is to be used next Monday when Mr. Conant is inaugurated in the Faculty Room in University Hall...
Self-sufficient Hope Williams is called upon to insert the Park Avenue element into the proceedings. As in The New Yorkers, in which she was also associated with uncouth Mr. Durante, she does not have much to do except feed him a few lines. Lively Lupe Velez, having abandoned most of the Mexican accent she affected in Ziegfeld's Hot-Cha, spends most of her time shaking herself at Funnyman Durante, which calls forth from him the bitter remark: "Now they're makin' me a juvenile...
...begged his advice on closing the Stock Exchange. All the East remembers is the Ku Klux Klan and the bad taste left by the 1924 convention. Time and distance have wilted the McAdoo reputation in Wall Street. Today he is thought of rather as a lanky, uncouth Westerner, flapping a cowboy hat, who backed "that wild man Garner" for the Presidency and then traded him off on Roosevelt. And over the McAdoo shoulder is seen the shaking finger of dictatorial William Randolph Hearst...