Word: vulgarisms
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...Still, Al grew to resent reference to the vulgar necessities of his sort of life. So did his brother, Tough Tony, who ran the Brooklyn piers for him. "Murderer?" Tony once rasped to a reporter. "He kill anybody in your family yet?" Al was proud of his children and became a heavy spender in New York toy stores. He was mourned last week, however, in a very narrow circle. Only Tough Tony gave any public display of grief. When a New York Daily News reporter called him and announced that Al had been shot to death, Tony said: "What...
...patter with the panel, the pair used film, animated cartoons and laboratory models to show how the sleuths of science discovered, clue by clue, what little is known about the cosmic rays that bombard the earth. The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays was an instructive hour, much less vulgar in its popularization than Hemo the Magnificent, but it could have done with less sugar-coating ("These science dicks will knock ya for a loop!"), even for the sweet tooth of the bubble-gum brigade...
...crude, vulgar and unbecoming display of a nasty temper." Thus wrote Florida's Supreme Court in 1953, scolding Circuit Judge Stanley Milledge for the way he had bawled out an attorney in his courtroom. In Miami last week, testy, white-haired Judge Milledge, 61, flew into another tantrum and onto Florida front pages in probably the least judicial photograph of a judge yet to reach print...
...friend of a prostitute. As for Bernard, he does not want the actress; he wants Josee, who is beautiful, drives fast cars and gets more money than anyone needs from her family in North Africa. Naturally, she does not want any part of Bernard. For her it is a vulgar-but-vital medical student who can take her or leave her. As a result, Bernard is very sad and does not have much use for his nice young wife Nicole. For once Author Sagan is thoughtless of the needs of her characters: she fails to provide a lover for Nicole...
...passed on to more philosophical subjects. "I'm not one of these guys who say any consciousness of cost in an artistic endeavor is vulgar. Efficiency applies to art as well as anything else...