Word: vulgarisms
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...professorial branch of Harvard's personnel has long been inclined to regard newspaper publicity not only as vulgar, stupid, and crass, but, so one may conclude from the foregoing, as annoyingly pertinent. It was with poorly concealed intent to touch this inner spring that the CRIMSON inaugurated it's Harvard Portraits. There seems to have been some, misunderstanding: in the course of the past week Professors Burkhard and Morison have been espied, carrying large wads of CRIMSONS under their arms...
...guests attended, among them Senator Long. His host was Songwriter Gene Buck. The Senator had been drinking before he arrived at the club. His strident voice rang out louder than usual as he barged around among the other diners. He sat down with strangers, made himself objectionable with vulgar greetings. Spotting a plump girl with a full plate before her, he marched to her table, snatched the plate from her, yapped: "You're too fat already. I'll eat this." He danced just once-until his partner's husband took the lady away. He thrust himself behind...
...football lines while not indulging his other animalisms too much to spoil the main chance, gets him into a good college, into Wall Street, big money, a sound marriage. A mixup with a girl to whom he turns not for sex but, more subtly, as an outlet for his vulgarity, leads to divorce, dissipation, bankruptcy. And then the muscular, go-getting, self-preservative qualities of Johnny Green come into play again. Through a rich but sallow girl whom he never quite wrongs, he climbs up again, richer than ever, politically popular, a grinning, driving top-dog with regrets...
When Marie Dressier writes for publication, her words are often more sentimental than spontaneous. The flavor of a character which is attractive because it has remained warm, vulgar, direct, somewhat unsophisticated but far from unwise is conveyed better in the extemporaneous Dressier aphorisms that Hollywood especially admires. "I ought to have had a dozen kids and made their clothes and done their washing. . . . I always felt sorry for beautiful women. . . . Keep working always. 'It brings luck. ... A lady may stand on her head in a perfectly decent self-respecting way. . . ." Said Marie Dressier when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered...
Travers was an architect. He built vulgar edifices for the masses, which made him money and a reputation but somehow did not satisfy him. Travers was also a bit fuzzy. Returning from a trip to the U. S. he is met by his pretty young wife at Liverpool. Travers wanders off to buy a book, becomes innocently involved in a street brawl, is taken in tow by a mysterious florist in the pay of the internationally omnipotent Lord Snarge...