Word: vulgarisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME of Feb. 28 prints an article about Grade Fields in which the following is stated: "Miss Fields last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar." The word vulgar constitutes a grave injury to Miss Fields, her friends and public in England, where she is greatly beloved as your article states. I am a great admirer of TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager...
TIME was using "vulgar" to indicate a hearty British, not a self-conscious U. S. phenomenon. Fortnight ago from Capri Miss Fields telephoned the London Daily Express regarding TIME'S story. Sensibly, good-humored-ly she commented: "The customers are satisfied, aren't they? Besides, I'm not vulgar. When I'm trying not to be vulgar, everybody tells me off. I don't care what they say about me. People who see me like me. That's all that matters. I just go on in my own sweet way. My act has changed...
...Revolt in Reverse," the annual production of Pi Eta Club, which goes on for the last time tonight, is perhaps typical of college theatricals. It is gay, noisy, colorful, and no more vulgar than the circumstances warrant. The total stranger is amused; enjoyment increases in direct proportion to the number of acquaintances in the cast and approaches ecstasy in the case of club members...
...comparable with the name Hearst for press potency-which they are today. With the successful purchase of the New York Telegram and later of the great New York World, they moved into Manhattan and gained prestige. Meanwhile Scripps-Howard came to identify a type of journalism, popular but not vulgar, liberal (supporting Roosevelt in his first term) but independent (criticizing Roosevelt later...
Frogs can breathe through their skins, but it is a vulgar error to suppose that they can bury themselves in sludge and sleep for centuries. After a miner named Ollie Jordan had set off a charge in a tunnel 75 feet below the surface of a hill near Ellensburg, Wash., he found "two handfuls of slimy, muddy substance." Few minutes after he had put this muck near a stove, it came apart, turned out to be six drowsy frogs. He took them home, where during the next two days they gradually sat up and began to hop, croaked loud enough...