Word: vulgarisms
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...store, in the days before the AAA messed the cotton business up with red tape, we sold "salt pork" under name of "bacon," "side bacon," and, to the vulgar, "sow belly." That was the only meat we sold and, naturally, I assume that it is your fatback...
...Leading a Horse (see cut) which even a know-nothing in art could see was first rate, has, says Barr, "an unpretentious, natural nobility of order and gesture which makes the official guardians of the 'Greek' tradition such as Ingres and Puvis de Chavannes seem vulgar or pallid...
...says your article on him was "not only untrue but vulgar to the extreme." You did not even have the courtesy to reply, merely "Conductor Dunbar herewith sees his letter, but no apology." Are we readers expected to naively assume that TIME cannot...
...Thomas Browne called them "vulgar errors." Said Francis Bacon: "Men rest not in false apprehensions without absurd and inconsequent deductions." As Essayist Logan Pearsall Smith put it, even the most lucid brains harbor "nests of woolly caterpillars...
...this book, vigorous, witty Bergen Evans, youthful professor of English at Northwestern University, swoops down on many of the world's best-beloved caterpillars' nests. His aim is, of course, to exterminate them. Sample "vulgar errors": >Thunder sours milk (the sultry weather is really responsible...