Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High Snobbishness. However, a closer examination of the actual facts does not fail to prove that his idea is in reality nothing but a mirage. (Empty dream.) Unfortunately, our brothers go to Harvard. They use a flat "a", are perfectly acquainted with the letter "r", are common, lowdown, plain vulgar gentlemen. So are their friends, when observed intimately. So are their friends, when observed intimately. And their friends...
...form. Since he wrote, "The Sun Also Rises," the author has trained down fine: with a keen psychological insight he gives only the significant aspects of the brief dramatic incidents. There are no airs and graces about him, no strainings for effect. One will not find in him the vulgar American sin of falseness nor yet the favorite modern one of incoherence. In his prose we feel the wiry strength of steel springs: quickly, it moves with the panther's lithe, coordinate tread, so sure...
...plays which pander to the non-representative vulgarian audiences of New York, upon whom the producers depend almost entirely; have become in recent years more and more vulgar; the themes more sensational, and the language more blasphemous...
...soothed her poor heart for the untimely death of my little sister. Cardinal O'Connell can have had little no children die in his family, or he would not be so callous to such a consoling, lovely and song. please It do is not not let it vulgar. It be driven out of memory. ELSIE D. COOPER Baltimore...
...spectacle afforded by these exhibitions is to be regarded as typical of the organization's attitude and sense of humor then one can only sigh for the return of a more puritanical regime. That these displays have any claim to respectability there can be no question: they are disgusting, vulgar,--they are nauseating. They only excuse for their presence is the laughter which they might evoke. And this fall, the climax of several years of increasingly disagreeable spectacles, even the opportunity for that excuse has disappeared. Never, not even in the cheapest of cheap vaudeville houses, has the public...