Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once voted for Jefferson Davis in a Presidential election, on the principle that a first-rate dead man is better than a second-rate live one. Of President Roosevelt he says: "[He] is no Cincinnatus; his manifest scheming for the job gives his measure." NRAdministrator Johnson he calls "that vulgar ruffian Johnson, Roosevelt's strong-arm man." He finds it "hard to imagine a more despicable institution than our press. ... All that makes me suspect there may be something in Technocracy is that the New York Times and Herald Tribune ridicule it. If they ignored it altogether, I would...
Chafing with spleen General Göring filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...
...Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these gentle snobbish strokes, the stage is set for the introduction of the nephew's girl (Peggy Fears). He meets her at a vulgar tycoon's party next door, does not know that she is married. Wandering into the second act set, a superb garden with two great oaks and gardenia roses, Miss Fears falls in love with garden, house, young man. When she pronounces Rockefeller correctly he straightway takes...
...think that money should go to those who would spend it well? I am Socialistic in a great many things, and this sort of thing makes me see more Right in the Left." Another legal action disclosed last week was that of the Duchess of Marlborough against the vulgar U. S. funnysheet Hooey. Sale of the magazine in Great Britain was stopped when the onetime Gladys Deacon of Boston took offense at a cartoon in the November issue. The cartoon: a dowager in her garden gapes at two scrawny rosebushes, with their roots close together, their stems intertwined, and their...
...There is really a very well developed art in burlesque," said the girlesque queen. "And as for vulgarity, I have seen musical comedies on Broadway that are more vulgar than any show I've ever played in." Asked whether she received many mash notes from members of the audience at her shows, the birly-cue actress said. "Of course I do. Every girl in the 'honkytonk' gets lots of them. And you know, it's a funny thing, but a good number of theme come from college fellows. I guess other men must know better. I never answer these notes...