Word: vulgarisms
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...TIME to combat prevailing opinions on these matters. Until reading your good magazine, we had never heard of a "regatta" at either Oxford or Cambridge and the general view held was that Mr. Paul Melon was at Clare College. Do come to our aid in clearing up these vulgar sins respectively of omission and commission...
Sirs: After thoroughly perusing your commentary on Sacré du Printemps (TIME, April 28), we find something to which we object strenuously. Namely, the application of the word "pornographic" to the music of Igor Stravinsky. That word suggests something cheap, showy and vulgar. Brutal he may be-savage and colossally déchirant in his treatment of Sacré du Printemps, but never pornographic! Please retract-you do him a grave injustice. JOSEPH STAPLES JOHN H. HARNEY...
...Darkness and Peer Gynt. She likes to climb mountains, drive horses, eat spinach "because it reminds her of the country and gardens." Audiences watching her are reminded of Actress Claudette Colbert (TIME, April 28). Because she is an admirer of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and because of the vulgar significance which attaches itself to the word "broad," two years ago she changed her name, which had been Bertha Broad. Critics thought her performance in Courtesan a trifle vociferous but capable...
Montana Moon (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Equipped with dull and naively vulgar dialog Montana Moon is a retake, admirably photographed, of the sort of picture that was known as a "superfeaturerl in the days when all pictures were westerns and when anything was a superfeature that contained more than a straight western story. The novelty is the introduction into ranch life of Joan Crawford, a girl addicted to the incautious pleasures and frail moral standards of the East. She marries a cowboy, "repents, is on her way back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading...
...regret that the financial position I inherited [i.e.] from Churchill does not permit me''?but he got no further at the moment. Conservatives cried, "Shame, shame! That was vulgar, Snowden! Shame! Vulgar...