Word: vulgarian
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...perhaps have been trashier. There is nothing wrong with Bridie's subject. His play rather resembles Willa Gather's memorable novelette, A Lost Lady - in the lady herself, the perceptive old husband who dies (well played by Cecil Parker), the young romantic who idealizes her, the young vulgarian she sleeps with and marries. But far from capturing any of Willa Gather's lingering glow, Bridie fails to give Daphne a saving gaudiness. For one thing, he spends half his time parading a lot of open-stock minor characters whom nothing would justify, and only a vivacity they...
...oring, who had no illusions about his impending fate, was unmoved by the speech. But many of his fellow defendants -who had hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
...enthusiastic vulgarian with far better control of her instincts offstage than on. Actress West seldom drinks, smokes denicotinized cigarets. Until she reached Hollywood, she improvised her plays in rehearsal from rough notes; her ambition as a playwright was to win the Pulitzer Prize. Padded in most of her pictures. Mae West's real dimensions are: height 5 ft. 5 in., weight 120 lb., waist 26 in., hips 36 in., bust 36 in. She likes diamonds, rare beefsteaks, racehorses, of which she recently acquired a stable of three. Her next picture for Paramount will...
...legend of a young cartoonist, flouted by the parents of the girl he wished to marry, who made himself rich by putting them in a comic strip. Earthy, rude nouveaux riches, Jiggs & Maggie became famed in song, story, burlesque. Probably on this account is the story apocryphal. No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie. Nevertheless, U. S. masses have for many years followed their somewhat stylized activities, which consist chiefly in family strife and almost invariably end with Maggie pelting Jiggs with...
...knows too many after-dinner stories even to count. He knows his company for any particular one. He is no vulgarian. His manners would be called excellent except for his penchant to monopolize the conversation. On first acquaintance he seems a truly remarkable man. He does not wear well. That he has the talent and the information to make the mess a lot worse than it is, bad as it is, is not questioned...