Word: vulgarism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vulgar, Obscene, Promotional. Mrs. Harvey Wiley, chairman of the legislative committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (representing 2,500,000 women), thought Esquire's Varga Girl drawings "obscene," was shocked by a picture of a modern bathing beauty. Shown a 30-year-old photograph of onetime swimming champion Annette Kellerman and asked if she thought it, too, was indecent, she cagily declined to commit herself except to say she had always admired Miss Kellerman as "a great exponent of health...
Summed up the New York Daily News's rollicking George Dixon: from some witnesses' testimony it appears "that nearly every amusement in life, except possibly lynching, [is] vulgar, obscene and corrupting...
Last week the Army took a statistical look at its general officers which showed that two of these popular notions were vulgar errors...
...Numerous Michigan housewives had received mash notes enclosed in their ration books. Said an OPA official: "None of the notes were what could be described as vulgar. They merely emphasized a tendency to jolly the public along...
...broadcasts' tone is usually oratorical and demagogic, vulgar, presumptuous, and therefore offensive to reasonably intelligent Italians...