Word: vulgarisms
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...body's rich speech is what serious Wigmanites seek to have emphasized over the vulgar view of their work as strange gymnastics. Wigman beginners are instructed not to think, to become mental vacuums so that they may feel some rhythmic, primitive urge and move accordingly. The urge may or may not be pretty. Dancer Wigman can make it grimly angular and austere. She is close to 50, but she can fill the stage with stark, driving energy. In her dark moods, emphasized by monotonous offstage drumbeats, she is more impressive than when she feels mellow and pastoral...
From New Orleans came Professor A. L. Voss to invite the Council there for its next meeting, and to report on the Four Most Common Vulgar Errors. Especially to be heard in the easy-going South, they are: "ain't," "I done" or "I seen," ''them things," and "I didn't do nothing...
...impressive gain made by the tabloid Mirror could hardly be accounted for by former World readers. And it is a question whether Hearst's evening Journal drew more of its new readers from the late Evening World or the vulgar tabloid Graphic...
Drinking brightens up the conversation. Physical intimacies and liberties tend to become licence and naturally lead to sex indiscretions. Petting is a vulgar practice in which decent people will not indulge...
...Mexico City chauffeurs devised a code of horn signals, added this U. S. innovation. One chauffeur was stopped by a policeman named Tomas Gonzalez, sharply reprimanded for a traffic violation. As the chauffeur drove away he stepped on the accelerator, made his horn issue a loud, vulgar noise. Tomas Gonzalez jumped on the car's running board, beat him dead...