Word: uncouthness
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...Lyman Beecher, a small contradiction, who was christened, after due consideration, Henry Ward. He was a contradiction because, although the son of a pious, even a studious clergyman, he spent his very early youth in moody or riotous behavior; his school work was invariably bad, his appearance and disposition uncouth, his only talents those of a buffoon. Later, still a contradiction, he spent his days in disseminating simultaneously the word of God and a most horrible scandal...
...United States. "The background of England is infinitely richer," Mr. Aiken went on; "English society is cultured from top to bottom. There is more opportunity for the novelist to draw on human consciousness. The English country-side particularly appeals to the author. In America everything is rough, ready, uncouth, forlorn, and dilapidated. There is a feeling that American civilization is only temporary, to which England's age and historic and literary tradition offer a striking contrast. That is why literary figures such as J. G. Fletcher, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound have taken up their residence in England...
Said Dame Margaret: "I would not live among Australians for thousands of pounds. They are uncouth. They have no art and they take no interest at all in anything save their own municipal and state affairs. The Australians themselves are leaving the country areas for the towns and they want emigrants from England to go out into the back blocks and do all the hard work. "Immigrants are not treated well out there. They are spoken of as 'pommies,' the reference being to their bright cheeks, which look like pomegranates, and 'low-downers.' I would most...
...Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...
...Padre is a French peasant-priest. He mingles with the people, drinks with the soldiers, says: "Hell, yes, you bet your sweet life." An uncouth fellow, given to kissing barmaids in saloons, he is, nevertheless, established as a sterling upright character, for he frowns blackly upon kissing in the salon. When his good-fellowship embroils him in a Parisian night club scandal and the Bishop is about to punish him, the Cardinal pops out from behind the curtain, announces that the padre has a heart of gold. Leo Carillo does the padre, but the real hero is Poilu, high-spirited...