Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good fellowship. When they grow old they swap anecdotes about him; if they become Trustees they like to see him prosper in his fashion. But the research professors, who sometimes regard the civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues and often of the president, who feels the responsibility of keeping the University in a good competitive position intellectually. Between the two groups occasionally there is mild academic friction. Last week at Yale there was strife...
Edward Hugh Sothern, oldtime Shakespearean trouper with his wife Julia Marlowe, spoke in Chicago about the U. S. stage. Said he: "Fifty years ago we led the world in stock companies of fine standards. Now we are in lewd and vulgar depths for the most part...
Americans hear and read so often of the French view, that the horde of tourists from the United States annually visiting that country are loud, ill-bred, uncouth and make a vulgar display of money, that one wonders why the "retort courteous" is not more often resorted...
Mostly in measured language he uproots what seem to him some vulgar errors and takes his final stand with such modern mystics as Astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: "The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our life in it any less mysterious...
...life on Germany's Eastern Front. But the praise of literary circles meant little to portly highbuttoned Lieut. Col. Walther von Bogen, editor of the sedate Journal of German Nobility, who, reading novelist Zweig's book, found to his horror and amazement that it was vulgar, pacifistic, shockingly outspoken, likely to cause discontent among German troops. Editor von Bogen wrote a review in which he said that Novelist Zweig was a "dirty Asiatic fellow whose book was an insult to many noble German ladies...