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...know what he was eating. Frogs' legs, announced the chef. (In this case poached in a white-wine court bouillon, steeped in an aromatic cream sauce, seasoned with paprika, tinted gold, covered by a champagne aspic and served cold.) Aristocratic English circles in those days considered as vulgar an animal as the frog a gastronomic monstrosity, but the prince's verdict was: delicious. From that time Nymphs' Thighs became a familiar tidbit in the best London restaurants, and the chef became known as the man who taught Englishmen to eat frogs...
...This is to tell you that I found your "report" on French youth both vulgar and ignorant...
When "Diamond Jim" Brady was the towering pinnacle of vulgar glitter . . and Lillian Russell heaved her eternal voluptuousness against the hungry jackal gleam in the tired businessman's eye . . . art in America . . . was merely an adjunct of plush and cut glass . . . Its heart pumped only anemia...
...doing this just for circulation, remember Judas.' Well, it did start that way. But after three days, my motives had grown quite complex-until now I think only God can sort them out. We've managed to project God and Jesus Christ in a brash, vulgar tabloid. I think we've done a lot of good...
...Advertisement in Saturday's CRIMSON taken by the Young Nihilist Club. We feel it our duty to inform you the parent organization must of necessity deplore such vulgar popularization. Such tactics tend toward placing world nihilism in an unfavorable light...