Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" Cardinal O'Connell commanded last week: "I have noticed lately that on several occasions at the funerals held in our churches, vulgar and profane English hymns, composed evidently by people who have no faith but plenty of maudlin sentiment, have been sung at the end of the ritual. One of these hymns, 'Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,' a flagrant outrage to faith and the ritual, seems to be the favorite sob-producer...
...Catholic's ritual is so noble, so sublime and so divine that only a vulgar mind could be guilty of insulting it with such trash...
...trappings are subdued and beautiful with out being arty. The delivery and stage manner give the sense of being anthentic without being self consciously quaint The ridiculous twists that lie in wait for the archals in our day are reduced to a minimum. There is none of the vulgar and artificial that was found in "The Miracle...
Vaudeville and auctioneering reclaimed him until 1920 when he campaigned for the mayoralty with his wife ("Me and Sarah"), successfully, against enemies that called him "a vulgar vaudeville actor." His method this time was to invite the public to free vaudeville programs, then orate. Leaving office, he sought nomination for governor, losing to Klan-backed Ed. Jackson. His latest public appearance was last week as a witness in the trial for corruption of his mayoral successor, John L. Duvall (see CORRUPTION...
Dismissal of a huge extravaganza such as that which has held Chicago and, by radio and press, the entire nation spellbound, breathless and even unconscious, on the varying grounds that it was vulgar brutality, misdirected energy, or vapid inanity is begging the question in a conventional and entirely superficial fashion. The annual battle of the century may have been all of those things and many more, but since its power was so tremendous it can scarcely be passed off as just one of those things. The columns devoted to the private life, if they may be said to possess...