Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what she thought was folly, is very good indeed, uniting to those charms with which she was endowed at birth, a certain undeniable talent for carrying off the comic situation. As for the story itself, it demonstrates that while the comedy of intrigue is not necessarily heavy-handed or vulgar in the movies, it is a very different genre from what goes under the name on the stage. "Pleasure Cruise" goes some way towards being a happy resolution of the difference; it has the scenic and technical advantages of the photoplay, without losing the grace and quiet effectiveness...
Since the Soviet Government lists jazz music as "vulgar," "demoralizing," few good Communists have heard jazz orchestras. But tourists in Moscow may hear jazz at the tourist hotels. One of the best is at the Grand Hotel where Leader Alexander ("Sasha") Tsfasman, "Russia's Paul Whiteman," postures, stamps and waves his baton. His "Moscow Boys" blare out an acceptable version of jazz. Few Communists go to hear...
Cyrus Curtis did not go into the newspaper business until he had amassed a vast fortune from the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. The advertising solicitors of his newspapers have loudly argued that the Record is "vulgar . . . with no quality, no class circulation." But the ultimate in Philadelphia quality and "class" is Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the chief executive of Mr. Curtis' magazines. Unsuspecting, she had given her picture and endorsement to Judith Jennings, the Record's vivacious society editor...
Picture Snatcher (Warner) is a vulgar but generally funny collection of black outs. They concern a young racketeer (James Cagney) who finds to his endless delight that he cannot be put in jail for stealing pictures for the tabloids. He also finds that his brother journalists are smart but no match for him. Smartest of them is a rowdy sob-sister (Alice White). When she flusters him, Cagney bluntly knocks her down. When a bereaved husband comes to shoot him he hides in the women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert...
...Olga Gel- hause of the Bulletin. No socialite, she rarely goes to parties, rarely even has to telephone. Submitted material from the Best Families floods her desk. The presence of Judith Jennings, daughter of a prominent Germantown minister, on the Record has brought that liberal, crusad- ing, sometimes vulgar sheet into homes which never admitted it before. Washington's elegant society editors include no dictator; all are accustomed to having their hands kissed by Latin Ambassadors. The city's social news is reported in the manner of a court gazette. The President, members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court...