Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infectious hepatitis, by vulgar error called jaundice,* is the kind of disease that in peacetime worries doctors very little. It makes people uncomfortable but rarely kills them. But hepatitis worries doctors in wartime because 1) it puts its victims out of action for two or three months; 2) so many British and U.S. troops have had it, especially in the Mediterranean area, that the number is a military secret...
...later provincial life it was played with a re-written last act, wherein, much against his will, James conceded to popular taste a happy ending for his hero and heroine. Characteristically, James, in a letter to Edmund Gosse, anticipated the opening night of "The American" as a vulgar ordeal...
...case, though dutifully dippy at intervals, Laffing Room Only is more often just a loud, vulgar Broadway revue-corn, slapstick and smut, with some fancy production numbers thrown in for size. The slapstick and smut are out of vaudeville's filing cabinet, and the bottom drawers at that. The production numbers, if easy to look at, are nothing to listen to. The corn, as usual, is served up home-style with the audience encouraged to compete for prizes, wave handkerchiefs, sing round songs, dance with chorines-as though they were paying for exercise as well as entertainment...
...lines have been neatly tailored to her talents. They include such easy lines of cryptic folk poetry as "Was ya ever bit by a dead bee?" An even easier line, sure to bring down any decently vulgar house, is her comment on Bogart's second, emboldened kiss: "It's even better when you help." Besides good lines, there are good situations and songs for Newcomer Bacall. She does a wickedly good job of sizing up male prospects in a low bar, growls a louche song more suggestively than anyone in cinema has dared since Mae West...
...court, that on their tenth wedding anniversary he had asked for a divorce so he "might marry the woman who had been living with him as his mistress." The woman was identified as a onetime pupil of Untermeyer's. Mrs. Untermeyer charged that her husband had been receiving "vulgar" verse from his former pupil ever since. Mr. Untermeyer said that his new love had revived his poetic inspiration...