Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer a criticism of Arthur Detrick's communication (TIME, Feb. 7) ? His condemnation of the "vulgar sensational stories" printed in TIME is analagous to the tale told of Dr. Johnson: when complimented by a lady for omitting from his dictionary words of questionable repute, he replied "so you have been looking for them, Madam...
TIME actually does give the events of the day in thorough and concentrated fashion. It does omit surplus verbiage. But it also gives unnecessary and vulgar sensational stories-and it gives these stories in a manner more objectionable than that used by the gum-chewers' sheetlets so greatly decried by TIME...
...Subscriber White turn again to TIME'S account of Mrs. Brookins' ejection and read the footnote: "This is one version of Mrs. Brookins' utterances. The other is that Mrs. Brookins was mannerly; that the conductor was loud, vulgar, abusive...
...Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor in the play) wrote the book, worked in many a laugh, also insinuated a jail scene, one of those atrociously vulgar burlesques on sex perversion so popular this year. It was greeted enthusiastically, justifying entirely the discretion of the writers. The audience left the theatre whistling " 'Cross the River . . ." in a thousand different keys, in uniformly cheerful spirit...
...know where I'm going but I'm on my way," in a motor sent to fetch him into audience with the Bey of Tunis, who probably wants, as everyone else does, some of his power, his money. Little Ogle, spared only by a check for vulgar cinema rights from the humiliation of hav-ing to borrow like the rest, abjures highbrow writing and is grateful for Olivia Tinker's hand in marriage. Mme. Momoro, hav-ing acquired what a devoted mother-of-the-world could for her son, departs in gratitude for Paris...