Word: ribald
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...hundred motor-driven vehicles on the Islands, none for private use.) The application was received with "ribaldry." and the Governor retired to his tent with a severe case of the haughties. Last week when the Speaker informed the Assembly of the Governor's still purple condition, the ribald Assemblymen sent their soothing respects...
...Vagabond would learn more of this amazing, ribald, religious man who wrote the "Gulliver's Travels" every boy knows but does not understand. For this purpose, he journeys to Sever 11 at eleven o'clock this morning to hear Dr. Knox Chandler lecture on Jonathan Swift...
...fastidious craftsmen, the deep human and emotional qualities of his music have often been overlooked. This week the noted English Critic Walter James Turner publishes a critical biography of him.* With a hitherto untranslated collection of letters to draw upon, Author Turner shows Mozart to be a lusty, even ribald character, with a stout heart, a lively sympathy for his fellow man-and woman. Reminding his readers that Mozart's generation was also Goethe's and William Blake's, that its spirit was in fact romantic and revolutionary rather than classical, Critic Turner ends romantically by finding...
...said match booklets had been distributed in behalf of the Plaintiff, it was brought to his attention that the Defendant had printed on the inside of each and every booklet . . . in place of the words 'Paid political adv. by G. L. Evers, Dadeville, Ala.,' the ribald and obscene picture of a boy urinating in a stream of water, and with words of warning, printed thereunder, 'Don't drink water-drink beer...
...Ernest Pagano, and played to the last suggestive note by a capital supporting cast of non-star names (Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn. James Ellison. Frances Mercer. Franklin Pangborn), Vivacious Lady needs only a snipping-out of sophomoric circumstances here & there to bring it to the top comedy class. Most ribald sequence, primed by Director George Stevens to go off in the Hays office's face, comes when Bridegroom Stewart tries to carry Bride Rogers over the threshold of a Pullman drawing room, to find it already occupied by a truculent, long wed pair of grumps...