Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...require readers to buy anything. Half-apologetically it confined the puzzle to small space, did little crowing about its $15,000 prizes. No stranger to contests before it became supreme in circulation in the U. S., the News seemed embarrassed by the necessity of brawling with the vulgar Mirror...
...young French poet who fell Gallically in love with her. At the last minute their elopement fell through; Zita was too blooded a Victorian. Years later they met again, but the poet was no longer a temptation. Instead, Zita fell ridiculously and tragically in love with a vulgar journalist. She told him the story of her life; he sent it to a U. S. newspaper as a Sunday feature story. Her husband immediately got a separation. The journalist married someone else. Zita settled down to be an old lady by herself, took her unresigned but Victorian heart to the grave...
...vaudeville bill at the Orpheum this week is better than usual. Bob Hall, who bases his work on the daring assumption that a vaudeville act can be amusing without being vulgar, is really entertaining with his extemporaneous verse and lyric philosophy. The three Tripp brothers and their female associates are better than the average comedian-dancers and the acrobats are unusually daring...
...shattered marriage indicates the intellectual plane of Chained. This does not prevent it from being an entertaining specimen of baloney cinema, replete with sex and high life. In it, Clark Gable wears a little mustache and Joan Crawford gives all she has to her performance as a lady. Most vulgar shot: Mike, Diane and their friend Johnnie (Stuart Erwin) unbuttoning their breeches after a large meal...
Along with Mr. Howard on the credit side of Keep Moving's ledger is a vulgar man named Clyde Hager. Right out of Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw...