Word: vulgarisms
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Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
...introduction of printing itself, he said, hastened the fall of the oral tradition by making large quantities of vulgar and sensational literature available to the public...
...permission) had come and gone to the accompaniment of such impertinent tabloid headlines as COME ON, MARGARET and PLEASE MAKE UP YOUR MIND. All the proper British papers condemned such improper journalism. But the surprising fact in the whole situation was how carefully the respectable papers, without being so vulgar as to mention Townsend's name, had kept their readers up on the news. They did so by a sudden rash of articles about the archaic Royal Marriage Act which requires that Parliament shall have a year in which to disapprove of any marriage in the royal family...
...city of Fukui (pop. 120,000), for instance, the educators prepared a collection of what they called "good, wholesome, invigorating" songs to be sent out to local education boards and parent-teacher associations, with the recommendation that they be plugged on every possible occasion to drive out the "banal, vulgar, nerve-destroying" mambo. Then the educators rolled up heavy artillery in the form of a symphony orchestra imported from Tokyo. It got a respectful hearing, but this week Cherry Pink and Cerezo Rosa were beating harder than ever against Fukui eardrums. Said one local music critic sadly: "Fukui...
...daughter from their palace in Rome, he had shut them up in the lonely castle of La Petrella on the Naples road. There they remained for months, imprisoned vic tims of Cenci's brutality and suspicions. By any standards, Cenci was a rotter's rotter. Gross and vulgar as he was rich, he had been convicted of sodomy in the papal courts and paid the enormous fine of 100,000 scudi. His debaucheries were the talk of a Rome that was no stranger to excesses...