Word: vulgarisms
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...West Indian rums. Even in Port au Prince good Haitian rum brings $2 a bottle, costs nearly $5 in New York. Because of this fact President Vincent is trying to persuade his countrymen to produce a cheaper spirit for export, good enough in quality to compete with the "vulgar" rums of Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique, low enough in price to slide over U. S. tariff walls...
...Charles, possess 113 and 12 representatives, respectively. Three other schools, whose associations with Harvard are relatively brief because they were established only a century or more ago, also sent goodly delegations: Phillips Exeter, 95; Phillips Andover, 51; and Milton Academy, 39. Americans who regard their country as a crude, vulgar place, devoid of civilized traditions, may be interested in these figures. They suggest a long procession of young men, following in the steps of their fathers and grandfathers...
...with a will. His nose immediately told him that here was another full-fleshed Hurstwurst, stuffed to bursting point, garnished with garlic, well-lapped in rich gravy. Critics of Fannie Hurst call her the most violent of domesticated female writers, say that her characters are not only stuffed but vulgar nonsense, that their actions are like the sputtering of a string of sausages in a frying pan. Her defenders reply that she has more zest in her capable little finger than there is in the ineffective fists of all her highbrow critics. Critics pay little attention to Fannie Hurst...
...once voted for Jefferson Davis in a Presidential election, on the principle that a first-rate dead man is better than a second-rate live one. Of President Roosevelt he says: "[He] is no Cincinnatus; his manifest scheming for the job gives his measure." NRAdministrator Johnson he calls "that vulgar ruffian Johnson, Roosevelt's strong-arm man." He finds it "hard to imagine a more despicable institution than our press. ... All that makes me suspect there may be something in Technocracy is that the New York Times and Herald Tribune ridicule it. If they ignored it altogether, I would...
Chafing with spleen General Göring filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...