Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christians. One may also maintain that the modern concern in this matte is purely philosophical: but there is little justification for this latter assumption. The modern attitude toward this subject, though of much smaller proportions than the ancient, is, nevertheless, of exactly the same nature. It is a vulgar pleasure taken in the knowledge of the mental agony experienced by "those about to die". But possibly the fault lies equally with the journalist, who places before his public such sordid material. Would not Pioneer's financial policy of Mussolini's relations with the papacy from a sufficiently worthy substitute...
...strains of syncopation, and the Vagabond, not given to such things, realized almost with a start, that he was sitting out a dance with a veritable "wow", a "knock-out", a "hot mama". (Note the quotation marks, which show that the Vagabond does not wholly approve of the vulgar phrasing, used here only for emphasis. The gist of what he means to convey, and the terms the Vagabond himself would use, being a gentleman of the old school, would be belle, or shall we say charmer...
...throes of a series of adventures as difficult if not quite so herioc as those in which the Rover Boys once acquitted themselves. Bouncing about this time from clouds to shell-torn battlefields, their misfortunes are ridiculous enough to be laughable. Most laughable is a scene, perhaps the most vulgar ever photographed, in which the two are impersonating the front and hind legs of a cow-a cow which is naturally incapable of the functions most commonly associated with its kind. It must be admitted that Funnyman Berry is about ten times funnier than his partner and that the canny...
Harry Delmar's Revels. The process of glorifying one Harry Delmar, vaudevillian, was duly inaugurated last week. Dully, too, in spots. Other spots included a jovial pony ballet; a vulgar song that grossly libels the Revolutionary hero Paul Revere; various deft dancers; Frank Fay, one of the few high-voiced comedians who can induce hysterics...
...good lyrics: "A Tree in A Park" sounded awfully good to us but then Helen Ford sang it and as far as we're concerned she could sing anything and we'd ask for more. No criticism would be complete without several bravas for Lulu McConnell: she may be vulgar but she's very funny and she has a laugh that does things to your vertebrae and almost shatters the Wilbur chandeliers. Betty Sarbuck, as Alice, Penfant terrible, is excellent. And there is an extremely personable young man named Stark Patterson who is well, we're just about...