Word: vulgarisms
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...Author-Grim-faced Vardis Fisher's life, like his hero's, has been hard. Says he: "I try to portray life as I see and have seen it; and because I have seen so much that is brutal and ruthless, vulgar and unlessoned and because I believe that all aspects of human life belong in serious novels, my books are called brutal and ruthless. . . . The only good book, in my opinion, is an honest book, and no book, I am sure, can be honest and wholly...
When Old Tutor Jorga rose last week to address the greybeards of the Rumanian Senate, they assumed that, as usual, his sallies would be spicy. For once Jorga spoke fairly seriously: "If His Majesty has sinned it is because he is human. Whoever gossips about a woman is vulgar and mean, and whoever thinks of the King as other than a ruler is out of order. Dabbling in gossip is unworthy of statesmen and characteristic of knaves and servants. All we have a right to demand of the King is that he know thoroughly the needs of the country...
...with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope, the outline of which was FURNISHED BY THE PRINCE HIMSELF. No part of the waistcoat is to be seen beneath the lappel. No silk facings to the coat, nor slashed sleeves. Shoes and strings...
...require readers to buy anything. Half-apologetically it confined the puzzle to small space, did little crowing about its $15,000 prizes. No stranger to contests before it became supreme in circulation in the U. S., the News seemed embarrassed by the necessity of brawling with the vulgar Mirror...
...young French poet who fell Gallically in love with her. At the last minute their elopement fell through; Zita was too blooded a Victorian. Years later they met again, but the poet was no longer a temptation. Instead, Zita fell ridiculously and tragically in love with a vulgar journalist. She told him the story of her life; he sent it to a U. S. newspaper as a Sunday feature story. Her husband immediately got a separation. The journalist married someone else. Zita settled down to be an old lady by herself, took her unresigned but Victorian heart to the grave...