Word: vulgarisms
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...Under the pressure of materialism and advertising and salesmanship, America's funerals have, within the past fifty years, degenerated into a pagan preoccupation with vulgar display and pagan concern for the body, to the almost total neglect of the spirit...
...biographer said that Ada Rehan's sense of comedy shielded "her love life* from vulgar comment." Her seagoing namesake in World War II never learned the trick. Rusty and listing noticeably, the S.S. Ada Rehan hung on her chains in Shanghai Harbor last week while drunken voices rose from her decks. In sea men's bars along Blood Alley, comment was vulgar...
...Brooks Brothers, Manhattan clothiers to men, there are things that one seldom hears mentioned. One of them is vests; Brooks Brothers calls them waistcoats. Another is ties; they're scarves. Still another is profits; they're vulgar...
High priest of the inconsolable Dolorists was chalk-faced Julien Teppe, who believes that only those who suffer cosmic misery can see reality clearly. In his 43-page Manifesto of Dolorism he discovered that "even a vulgar intestinal disturbance, when analyzed, interpreted, ruminated, and properly meditated, is capable of lifting us to a high universal comprehension . . . engulfing, containing all possible experience...
...your standards, I'm just a sissy writer." But he has a horror of becoming too fashionable: "We don't want to be known as the Vogue of literature." To avoid that, he pledged the magazine "to work for a new humanism which considers human life vulgar but sacred...