Word: uncouthness
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...enjoy reading about rams butting fat women and pigs slobbering on people. If they like it, I will pay you double price for TIME for ten years. If they do not care for it, I get TIME ten years for nothing and you agree to cut out the silly, uncouth stuff...
When a wise youth enters a U. S. college he soon loses any uncouth and ridiculous characteristics which he may possess and begins to conform to the collegiate prototype which, though nonexistent, is easily recognisable. Not so when he enters Oxford. Buoyed up by the feeling that he has already made a success of himself, he cannot easily forgive the apathy which British Oxonians feel towards him. This is at the source of an annoyance, to which there are many tributaries. In some cases the annoyance dries up. In others it may flood into a letter, such as that...
...writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou is suave enough mentally and facially to make the street sheiks, when they leave the theatre, light their cheap cigarets with an uncouth and elaborate imitation of his gesture...
...Clive, when peeping through a hole in the asbestos curtain, must miss the nice old ladies with ear trumpets, the nice old gentlemen with sidewhiskers, and the nice schoolkids who used to consider "Charley's Aunt" such a thriller. The Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places, and gents who wear caps for headgear, and the tense moment just after Hodolph Krauswitz, the Swiss millionaire, has been found dead in the laundry basket is disturbed by ribald yells from the galleries and the sound of cracking peanut shells. It is a far cry from...
...doesn't know Beecher-and he is in the vast majority- you give the impression that he was both a rogue and a fool. I wondered at times whether I was reading a review of Henry Ward Beecher or Elmer Gantry. You put them in the same class. "Uncouth. . . buffoon. . . pastor of a flock of golden sheep . . . women fainted when he shouted and roared. . . met charges with a stupid sarcasm." I say I have not read Hibben's book, but if you have reviewed it fairly it must be the most unsympathetic and prejudiced study...