Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will Rogers is a credit to the American stage putting clean mind, brains, humor into a profession badly lacking such virtues. In 15 years I have never known him to be vulgar, insulting. Would I could say the same of TIME for three years...
...fails to hide, the golden collar-stud. His shoes, surely, have never been denied by polish. See how he bows right and left, this gangling fellow, as lean as a lariat, in the old suit and the cracked shoes. His under lip protrudes like the point of a vulgar joke. His jaws move perpetually, up and down, chewing insult, chewing fancy, chewing humor, chewing gum. It is William Penn Adair Rogers, the diplomatist...
...Voluptuous, well-fleshed women are preferable, the article tried to say. More or less appropriately, poses by Marjorie Rambeau, Lenore Ulric, Gertrude Ederle, Ethel Barrymore, Helen Wills were printed to illustrate the point. The interesting thing was a detail which used to be unusual for a Hearst paper. However vulgar his aims and practices, Publisher Hearst never used to be accused, even by his most nauseated critics, of hiring writers ignorant of the English language. Yet in this article some Hearstling had committed a ludicrous blunder. The headline read and the text reiterated: "THE REAL BEAUTIES HAVE FULSOME FIGURES...
Pompous street criers strode last week through the narrow, vile and crowded thoroughfares of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. What the criers intoned in majestic Persian, their attendants translated freely into vulgar Pushtoo. Soon the 100,000 citizens of Kabul rejoiced that there Amir* ("Sovereign Lord") Amanullah Khan had conferred upon himself by proclamation the title "King...
Most important to culture was the expressed opinion that pianos are no longer bought as a vulgar mark of distinction, but simply for the love of music...