Word: vulgarisms
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...Baldwin rounded out an unusually philosophical week by addressing a banquet in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Spectator, famed British weekly review. Harking back to the U. S. Civil War, Orator Baldwin recalled that in 1863 the Spectator alluded to: "Mr. Lincoln's modest and somewhat vulgar but respectable statesmanship...
...hope Mr. Anderson feels better after plagiarizing a cheap, trashy, vulgar poem and sending to TIME with the suggestion that it is the "Texas version" of the presidential campaign. If I may use language as vulgar as he-what the hell does he know about the "Texas version"? He gives his address as Los Angeles...
People who know that famed Revue Comedienne Beatrice Lillie is also Lady Peel were struck by the coincidence. It was fun to imagine the often studiously vulgar Beatrice capering and kicking her heels high at India House. Of course she will never do so. For Lady (Beatrice Lillie) Peel is not the spouse of Lord Peel, but merely the wife of Sir Robert Peel, Baronet...
...abstruse writings are delectable to a few devotees; but to many they are meaningless, affected, smartly vulgar. Point Counter Point is a rich symphony of modern semi-intellectual London, done into polished prose that will be read slowly and with great relish-by the devotees...
...longer "sex," but adventure and romance. No one knows how the producers have been able to detect this curious hunger; but they have not been slow in satisfying it. Hither is the present trend of Ziggy; the Shubert show, White Lilacs, makes a valentine out of a vulgar though exciting episode. In The New Moon, Schwab and Mandel, from the cheers and collegiate stomping of Good News, have turned to New Orleans before the French Revolution and the dreamy schemes of a handsome Gallic aristocrat called Robert to build a state wherein men may live as equals and wherein women...