Word: vulgarisms
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...Times had called the theft "a coarse and vulgar crime," and the BBC had banned all jokes mentioning the Stone, including the remark that no Scot could have taken the Stone because no Scot would have left a wrist watch behind. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Need we English be much wounded by the loss of the Stone, if it is never recovered? We have a far better and more respectable one of our own, the King's Stone, now at Kingston-on-Thames, on which the Saxon Kings were crowned...
...Mortimer had one quality Fuseli lacked: crass humor. Along with a doleful Caliban and a tumultuous Hercules Slaying the Hydra, he drew such fantasies as an orchestra of flatulent beasts, which must have seemed capricious and vulgar to all but his best friends. Yet, says Grigson, Fuseli and Mortimer "drank to different depths out of the same brew and looked together into the abyss. Mortimer [like Fuseli] wildly, demoniacally, lit up, the eyes, accentuated them in shade, filled them with the gleam of interior flame and power...
...what I'm talking about. (Bully old man!) I have twied one spithe, and two spithes, three spithes(Hurrah!), four spithes, five spithes (Hear! Hear!), and thix spithes, and upon my word as a sthudent of Yale I declare that hot spithed wum without thix spithes is but a vulgar thubterfuge! (Prolonged cheering...
...Radcliffe administration has with drawn its protest that "Lysistrata" is too "vulgar" a play to be produced by Idler, the Annex dramatic group...
...have just soon the latest issue of the so-called "funny" magazine which the Lampoon puts out, and I believe that something should be done about it. It is simply the most vulgar thing I have over seen. There are cartoons and jokes in it which are worse than anything I have over road in Esquire or the Mid-Town Journal...