Word: vulgarisms
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...should be informed. The McCormicks have had their reaper for a hundred years. Certain families extraordinarily well considered here-abouts have enjoyed the advantages of wool and shoe leather for a shorter time. Also, as any Chicagoan could have told this gentleman, the "Tribune" is a very, very vulgar paper indeed, although we suspect that some of his local journals rival it in this respect...
Characteristic sequence in this vulgar, undistinguished, gratuitously profane presentation: Actor Kelly ingeniously seducing a woman whose flagpole-sitting lover has a searchlight trained...
...they perfectly right, these watchful citizenesses? Why should one admit to one's presence one who devours hardboiled capitalists with the same appetite and relish as once upon a time the ogre Minotaurus in Crete devoured luscious Greek maidens-a person who, in addition, is so vulgar as to oppose every war, except the inevitable one with his own wife? "Give heed, therefore, to the sage patriotic dear ladies and remember that the capitol of mighty Rome was at one time saved by the cackling of her faithful geese." When he went to the U. S. consulate in Berlin...
...Vagabond had gotten his left foot through the broken pane and had withdrawn his hand with which he was making vulgar gestures at his reflection in the glass...
...gesture of committing suicide so that her life insurance will enable the bank to reopen. Wobbling her jaw, protruding her underlip and narrowing her eyes, Marie Dressier somehow makes the crude fable (written by Sylvia Thalberg, sister of MGM's Production Chief Irving Thalberg) laughable and interesting. Most vulgar shot: Maggie Warren finding out that the bottle from which she has been gulping what she thought was poison, contained something else...