Word: vulgarisms
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SHAME ON TIME FOR DISTINGUISHING PETTY'S INDECENT VULGAR DISTORTIONS OF FEMALE FORM BY COVER PUBLICATION. MISS HAYWORTH'S PHOTOGRAPH SURELY SUFFICIENT. # Chief Boatswain's Mate. LET SUCH CRUDENESS STAY IN ADVERTISING WORLD WHERE SANE PEOPLE CAN IGNORE...
...been a matter of deep concern to me that the inexpressibly vulgar invasion of the rump of the Widener Reading Room by those women from Shepard Street has gone unnoticed and unprotested. The matter's true significance, in my eyes at least, may be surmised from the fact that it has elicited from me my first letter to a newspaper...
...Ministry itself and a sizeable slice of Parliament, all of whom think full British news coverage and adequate propaganda are now dangerously hobbled. Opposed to the press is Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, which believes in the notion that Britain's war effort needs no "vulgar publicity." In that notion it is at one with most bigwigs of the armed services...
...little side-wheel steamer began to take trippers to Coney from Manhattan at 50? a head. Later came horsecars, and then several railroads. Roughnecks, sports, plug-uglies and vulgar politicians began to jostle nice people. In 1920, when the subway reached Coney, people from the-city's steaming tenements could get dunked for two nickels, by simply wearing bathing suits under their outer clothes, discarding the latter when they got to the beach. Bitter bathhouse owners called them "drippers" because they dripped on the subways going home. Recently New York's famed and inexorable Park Commissioner Robert Moses...
...Berlin, Funnyman Wodehouse last week began to function as trained seal for the Nazis. In a deep chuckling tone, he described his internment as "an agreeable experience," recounted for short-wave listeners the details of his capture by the Germans. Typical whimsy: "The scene was not one of vulgar brawling. All that happened as far as I was concerned was I was strolling along with my wife one morning when she lowered her voice and said: 'Don't look now but here comes the German Army.' And there they were, a fine body of men, rather prettily...