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...chase could have caught Mrs. Simpson, but after her Buick flashed out of Ipswich, police swung one of their cars squarely across the road and blocked traffic for ten minutes. Eminent London counsel in Ipswich for the Assizes who had previously called stories about the King and Mrs. Simpson "vulgar American tosh," ended by admitting to U. S. correspondents in Ipswich that in their entire experience at the British Bar they had never witnessed such proceedings, concluded that Ipswich authorities were acting to please Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stag at Bay | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Tough, Ugly, Vulgar" Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

According to TIME'S reasoning, it seems to me that the affairs of Spain should have been more than ever ignored by the American press the moment they became ''tough, ugly and vulgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...marathon race on roller skates. Promoter Seltzer invented Roller Derbies- entrance to which can be attained only by winning elimination races in the Seltzer Roller Derby Association, with 3,000 members at $2 each-a year ago, to replace his Walkathons which he said were beginning to grow vulgar. By last winter he had selected a group of teams who competed successively in Chicago (TIME, Feb. 3), Miami. Louisville, Detroit for one month each. With rules patterned after six-day bicycle races, except that both members of the teams are allowed to leave the track between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Variations | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Conservative on Comics | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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