Word: vulgarisms
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...believe that Columbus was not a Spaniard or a Portuguese (both na tions claim him as a native son). Salvador de Madariaga's recent ingenious attempt to prove that Columbus was an unconverted Jew is dismissed as "a significant pattern of hypotheses and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact." Professor Morison also smiles wanly at stories like Columbus and the egg.* Nor, says he, did Isabella pawn her jewels to outfit Columbus' ships. She only said she would if it was necessary; it wasn...
...smoke-filled, work-scarred room in downtown Manhattan, about 30 City Newsmen held their wake. Among them were oldtimers who had covered the Triangle Waist Co. fire in 1911, the Wall Street explosion in 1920, the General Slocum disaster in 1904. On the wall a sign read: Profanity is vulgar and offensive. Why not quit it? In her cashier's cage Anna Daly Sullivan, only woman on the staff, swore through her tears...
...they were as simple as a combustion engine. From Alexis Carrel, with whom he worked for the Rockefeller Institute, he heard about a brave new world in which scientists would be the elite guard; in Ger many he discovered a society where he was never troubled by the vulgar herd...
Bully. It was over a mix-up right in his own yard that Butch was shrillest and worst behaved. For years, colleagues and subordinates at City Hall had endured his bullying and abuse. Said Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "LaGuardia, in his years in office [has] . . . emphasized his vulgar irascibility, his bullying intolerance" and his inability to cooperate even with his own appointees...
Lanterns on the Levee ($3), by William Alexander Percy, a sensitive Southern aristocrat's assertion of stoic faith in the face of a world grown totally vulgar as well as totalitarian...