Word: vulgarisms
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...table-studying the other House libraries are better equipped. The selection of books reflects the predominance of Economics, Romance Languages, and English specialists in the personnel of the House. In the cellar of Hicks House the Library has its massive vault for precious books, where carefully guarded from the vulgar eye lie such treasures as an Ellesmere edition of Chaucer, and an early set of Beaumont and Fletcher. In addition, in order to protect the sensitive spirits of Kirkland House, the library has placed Mother Goose Censored, the Limericks of Norman Douglas, and James Joyce's Ulysses down...
...George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established in Manhattan the National Police Gazette. Purpose: "To assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of felons' names, aliases and persons," offering "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions." Like Judge, the Police Gazette tried to live up to its founders' precepts, but languished with the rise of modern tabloid journalism. Insolvent for four months, it suspended publication last month. Last week Irving Trust Co. also...
...Reginald Marsh is not a lady's painter. Like Hogarth, he takes crowds for his subject, vulgar, sweating, bestial crowds. He likes to see burlesque shows, dance marathons, bread lines, bathing beaches. He draws them with a line that approaches the British master in brilliance but with a color that is still as crude as his subjects. All his sympathies are reserved for locomotives. Wrote the New York Evening Post...
...Locomotives Watering' there are the lyricism and unashamed romantic abandon which this type of subject evokes in this artist; human beings may be vulgar, pretentious, obvious, but a locomotive is always elegant, chic and glamorous...
...full year ago it became an open secret that only a contract held Winchell to the Mirror. He fought continually with Publisher Kobler and he fought with Managing Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau-with whom he used to fight when they occupied similar positions on Bernarr Macfadden's vulgar Graphic. Publisher Kobler objected to Winchell's appearance in vaudeville. He objected to Winchell's radio broadcasts (currently for Lucky Strike), charging that he gave out news to which the paper was first entitled. He removed the colyumist's smart, pert secretary Ruth Cambridge from the payroll (Winchell...