Word: uncouthness
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...smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury-vapor arcs. Conspicuous upon a red-draped raised platform, several uncouth persons in sweaters or shirt- sleeves, cranking unceasingly at cinema cameras. Such was the setting, dramatic and bizarre, amid which the famed Locarno Treaties* were signed at London last week...
...hope that during his administration he would be able to remove from the curriculum of the knowledge shop whose destinies he directs, every course which does not have practical value. Extreme courtesy might and might not permit one to rank his graduates as mediocre. Perhaps it was with such uncouth educational policies in mind that the writer added the charge of vulgarity to that of mediocrity...
...distressed in the presence of what they consider wholesale public blasphemy. So long as the great majority of people dislike profanity, even while using it themselves in strained moments, profanity for its own sake has no place on the stage. If, however, there are to be plays about such uncouth but real people as hobos and marines, the puppets on the stage should speak as do their genuine prototypes in freightyards and trenches. People who go to "What Price Glory" and "Outside Looking In" merely to be shocked, will probably not be harmed by hearing what should long since have...
Jake Zobetser (villain) : "With his huge, rounded shoulders, fat neck and enormous head bent over the desk, and his thin legs that appeared inadequate to carry the bulk of his body, he looked not unlike some uncouth monster of a fairy tale...
...story of the Napoleonic period about Sergeant Pierre null Joseph Lefebvre (later made general, marshal. Duke of Danzig) who married a blan-chisseuse (washerwoman) to the French guards. She, Catharine Hubscher, never varnishing over her early manners, acquired the nickname Madame Sans Géne, rather freely translated as Mrs. Uncouth...