Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facetious pamphlet, for such it was, was for the most part untranslatable, being written in Parisian slang and filled with allusions "irreverent, recondite and even vulgar...
...high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic and most plaintive of all the war songs sung on both sides was Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground. That song was written by Walter Kittridge of the Second New Hampshire Infantry. He was returning to the old camp along...
...Philadelphia Orchestra is one of the nation's prime dispensers of "music for musicians" ? classical, romantic, modern. There never has been anything vulgar, anything jazzy, about it. The players' costumes, as is eminently proper, always match the programs in dignity and sobriety; they are invariably quite up to the requirements of what the man will wear. The expressions and attitudes of the musicians correspond; they exude gravity, dignity, devotion...
...approach of Spring, and the happy dispersion of musico-financial troubles (TIME, April 21, May 12, 19) seem to have infected Conductor Stokowski with more than a mild dash of gaiety, boisterousness, even vulgar abandon. Stokowski has started a hilarious military band in Philadelphia...
...family" still painfully "new," and without the indispensable seventeenth century grace and conservation. The myth of Caroline purple has doubtless been strengthened by certain famous verses, excellent in themselves, but deplorable false to fact and record Perhaps our. New York at Cambridge deserves indigence for falling into popular, a "vulgar, error." Perhaps the Cabot trust insensible increased this error by its natural, if unsuccessful effort to protect its copyright against a Philadelphia Tarter who adopted its name. Some envious victims of the myth have gone so far as to assert that the Cabot are not a genes, but a distinct...