Word: coarsest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheap rats are drowned and smashed in torrents of abuse. It makes no polite fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood would stagger the Prophet. It is one of the coarsest stories since Rabelais but too terribly vivid, dramatic and shrewdly intense to be vulgar, save as Jarnegan was vulgar, to his sorrow...
Liberal Whip David Lloyd George popped many a stinging comment in his coarsest and least happy vein. Labor Whip Ramsay Macdonald egged on J. H. Thomas, usually one of the calmest Laborites, to make no less than twelve disparaging orations. Meanwhile sleepy members formed quartets and sang the U. S. Civil War ditty "John Brown's Body" to keep awake. Recitations of "Pop Goes the Wease"? were loudly applauded in the lobbies, while one right honorable member chanted...