Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against their clients, frightened liberals who see in the Bureau the material for a U. S. Cheka, and others, not all of them outside the Department of Justice, who are jealous of Director Hoover's success and political immunity. These call him everything from a vain peacock to a vulgar gum-shoer. And to this sort of charge, Director Hoover has one reply...
...Take your young priest, called largely on account of his youth and supposed harmlessness, and placed in charge of a parish. Now this parish contains, as many do, a dowager of some wealth, decided (though foolish) opinions, a rather overpowering presence, and a surpassing supply of vulgar bad manners which she complacently regards as frank common sense. ... As such dowagers, male and female, are fairly common in our milieu, shouldn't the priest be pre-advised just how to mingle firmness and kindness so as to persuade this particular pest either to pipe down or to jump...
...thesis is part and parcel of the other; if a firm and longsighted tradition of building students into graduate workers, graduate workers into scientists, was followed through its broader cultural implications, the teaching morals and the tutorial function in the Physics Department would become an inspiration instead of a vulgar failure...
...collar and high hat," yes. "Snobbish," most emphatically. But "tails," no, a thousand times NO! ... A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket. Its brief and ridiculous course terminates abruptly and without reason in the small of the back, and this gives it its vulgar but popular name of "Bottom-starver." This was indelibly impressed upon me well over 50 years ago when I was a schoolboy in a Lancashire factory town, and a well-meaning but misguided aunt donated an Eton jacket to help out the clothing problem of a large family, of which...
Last week things went better. Amid a shareholders' chorus of "Hear! Hear!" the Chairman excoriated U. S. Senators as vulgar snoops, welcomed investigation by Britain's new Royal Commission...