Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain the noun transvestite, the verb transvestize, the adjective transvestile, the adverb transvestily. Example: 'Transvestizing herself she became transvestile so transvestily that she may fairly be called a transvestite...
...ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently the New Yorker has been repeating, each week, the same Soglow drawing of an open manhole, from which issue voices providing different captions...
...individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship, as in American democracy at its inception. For modern times, when the patriarchal form of government is constantly losing ground, and when democracy is tending "to reduce all things,--government, art, literature and morals,--to the vulgar level of mediocrity," Mr. Denison proposes what he calls the anepsiarchal system, based on the relationship not of father and sons nor of brother, but of cousins, a system which frankly recognizes the inequalities of men and of the groups which they naturally form, and which combines such groups...
...with infinite restraint, is the terrific indictment against an indifferent generation. A girl's lover is killed-she feels no emotion; a country is in revolt, "the best people" pay no attention. Not that they do not love their Ireland: their patriotism flowers in smart patter about their vulgar cousins, the English-"they tell the most extraordinary things-about their, husbands, their money affairs, their insides. They don't seem discouraged by not being asked. And they all seem so intimate with each other ... of course they seem very definite and practical, but it is a pity they...
Opened importantly last week the spring and summer salons of many a great Parisian couturier. Since these are no vulgar "fashion shows" a discreet preview was permitted only to authentic amateurs and smartest clients. Soon the elect observed a series of Parisian points sure to mark the orbit of La Mode...