Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been a subscriber to your publication almost from the beginning and have derived great satisfaction, pleasure and information from reading it; however this letter is written as a protest against the unwarranted, indelicate, vulgar way in which the birth of the Crawford child was described [TIME...
Your magazine goes into the best homes in the country, and my own little son and daughters read it every week. To have their youthful minds shocked and seared by such a crude and vulgar description of one of the most sacred things of life is utterly 'abhorrent to me as a physician, as a father and as a gentleman...
...rendition of "Wintergreen". It touches the weakest spot in the armour of "Lampoon" and "Advocate" partisans. The "funnyman" makes no more mature interpretation than youthful jollity and a liberal allowance of beer can produce, while the muses of the "Advocate" often walk too high on literary Helicon for the vulgar population to follow them. Yet if the intended sacrifice of intellectuality to readability in the new magazine means a shoddy, superficial interpretation of Harvard life, the price for its existence will be exorbitant...
Which is a vulgar world, I fear...
Eddie Carr, the specialty man, is singularly unattractive and vulgar without being funny. The brilliance of his dialogue (on the cleaner side) is shown by the persistence of the fossil about the WPA workers who were mistaken for statues...