Word: uncouthness
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...west side of the Loop facing the oily, murky Chicago River is not the most glamorous site in the world for the home of grand opera. Yet, Chicagoans had reason to be proud last week when it was announced that Samuel Insull had acquired a half block amid bleak, uncouth warehouses facing the grimy waters, where he intends to make rise the $7,500,000 monumental abode of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and create a midWest music Mecca. Perhaps Mr. Insull's plan is a lusty answer to the Babylo-American style skyscraper which Otto Hermann Kahn...
...attitude; if there is no hope for extra European peoples then why worry. Life under the present bourgeois regime--and granted that it is bourgeois sometimes to the point of inanity--is sweet; and life under any regime is short--so why not make merry in one's own uncouth way? The intelligentsia phantom group, will shriek the truth of the Drifter's remarks and will seize upon them as further ammunition against the genus Babbitt. The intelligent will likewise see the justice of his criticisms--only they will not entirely damn the country to everlasting dreariness, but will reserve...
...national Klan because he had violated his oath of allegiance and had been "disrespectful to virtuous womanhood." He had already organized an independent Klan, had himself chosen Grand Dragon; and then replied to his old friend, Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans: "The present national head is an ignorant, uneducated, uncouth individual who picks his nose at the table and eats his peas with his knife. He has neither courage nor culture...
...Eskimo in question seemed fascinated by this song and in time learned those three words and practiced them with so much assiduity that he was ultimately able to sing them in a manner not wholly uncouth...
...were certainly supported by the ease and plenitude of money which has prevailed for so long a period. Last week the stock waves approached a level. Business throughout the country during the week was fairly stable. To intimate that prices may decline slightly during the coming months may seem uncouth and previous. The vivifying strength of spring trade has not yet made itself felt appreciably. Motor car and steel makers are under quantity production, although the former have retarded a bit. The Pennsylvania Railroad last week placed a $14,000,000 locomotive order. On the whole, though, dealers in moot...