Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks-old son of Crown Prince Olaf, received a huge, ornate beer mug as the official gift of the Norwegian Parliament. Sniffed Folket, temperance paper: "One would believe that it was a union of brewers and not the Norwegian Parliament that presented such a gift to the Prince. This vulgar object is a gift suitable for a drunkard...
...subservience, at any rate, is assured. The photograph, p. 24, of Matriarch Mary with Queen Elizabeth "well in hand" is the most expressive picture of the week. To see it is to understand at a glance the devious story of Edward's unprecedented behavior. In "most vulgar" American, or in any language, that expression on the Queen Mother's face spells "Meddlesome Interferiority." My only consolation is that TIME'S preview has cleared up much of the "Mystery of the Coronation." If Americans do not boycott the ceremonies, then they deserve the low opinion that Mary, churchy...
...Queen. About six years after his marriage he said as Duke of York, "My chief claim to fame seems to be that I am the father of Princess Elizabeth." To a pushing cinemagnate who managed to buttonhole the Duke and make an offer as fabulous as it was vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted, grinning crew to help their King & Emperor shoot a scene...
...name the King is a paid subscriber to Cavalcade, the British newsmagazine most candid in reporting the Royal family. In the eyes of good middle-class people like Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin this magazine is "most vulgar." Recently a close friend of George VI rang up the editor, suggesting a denial be printed of rumors circulating on the Stock Exchange that another mild epileptic "falling fit" had been suffered by His Majesty. This denial, since it came virtually from the honest King-Emperor himself, could be accepted as the nearest thing possible to the lowdown on a matter of utmost...
While open-mouthed crowds still jammed the corridors of the surrealist exhibition at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art last week (TIME, Feb. 8), another imposing exhibition of paintings that seemed equally cockeyed to the vulgar mind opened several blocks away at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, described by the Alliance's President Yarnall Abbott as "the most complete collection of nonobjective painting in the world," went up on the walls for a three-week showing. What the public had to see were 138 fairly large canvases and water colors by twelve artists in which there...