Word: vulgarisms
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During the debate, proponents of the motion charged that the "Scribe" was unrepresentative of student opinion and had run statements "which were defamatory, vulgar, and bordering on deliberate lies...
...Turkish bath, a wine closet, a St. Bernard dog woofing to the name of Mr. T-Bone Towser). Local reporters converged on the track where Beebe was parked with his traveling companion, Charles Clegg. Q.: "How much did this rolling stock cost?" Beebe (Shuddering slightly): "That's vulgar!" Clegg (to newsmen): "I wouldn't ask how much your suit cost." Beebe: "But Governor Harriman just bought a railroad car for $500,000." Clegg: "And they tell me it's real plain." A newshen (to Beebe's chef): "What do they drink, mostly?" Chef: "Everything, lady...
...bands played one kind of marching tune: calypso.* Often calypso was considered vulgar, usually with good reason. But since 1920, when someone improvised a song called Class Legislation, calypso has been a kind of musical journalism, with such topical titles as The Destruction of Hurricane Janet, What's Federation?, The Princess Says...
...center looked on in shocked silence. "You are a danger to the Republic," one aroused Deputy shouted at the Poujadists. "Yes-to the republic of cronies," retorted Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen. The Chamber of Deputies, which had been stunned to discover the voters of France had elected 53 vulgar persons called Poujadists to their republic of cronies, was trying to get rid of the fellows by other means...
...faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar humor. Like the rest of the work, Mack the Knife* was a bitter satire of society and of schmalzy, popular music; it gave a ragtime catalogue of murder, arson and rape...