Word: vulgarisms
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...offer a criticism of Arthur Detrick's communication (TIME, Feb. 7) ? His condemnation of the "vulgar sensational stories" printed in TIME is analagous to the tale told of Dr. Johnson: when complimented by a lady for omitting from his dictionary words of questionable repute, he replied "so you have been looking for them, Madam...
...sprung, the victim's clothing prevented her from falling completely through, but exposed her to the ministrations of two men with cat-o-nine-tails below. Thus the Empress Catherine could witness the agony of those whom she wished to punish without offending her gaze with the vulgar aspects of chastisement...
...support "and left me holding the bag." Hearstly screamers broadcast this implied perfidy, together with a picture of Mr. Vanderbilt Sr.'s yacht, Atlantic, and a touching reference to the $4,000 per day it cost to operate her. At the head of a column in his admittedly vulgar N. Y. Mirror, Publisher Hearst was pleased to print young Mr. Vanderbilt's name and portrait. Young Mr. Vanderbilt's column, headed Now, was modeled after the Brisbanal TODAY in other Hearst sheets. Whenever possible, the self-conscious young paragrapher proved his lack of "false modesty" by dragging...
TIME actually does give the events of the day in thorough and concentrated fashion. It does omit surplus verbiage. But it also gives unnecessary and vulgar sensational stories-and it gives these stories in a manner more objectionable than that used by the gum-chewers' sheetlets so greatly decried by TIME...
...Subscriber White turn again to TIME'S account of Mrs. Brookins' ejection and read the footnote: "This is one version of Mrs. Brookins' utterances. The other is that Mrs. Brookins was mannerly; that the conductor was loud, vulgar, abusive...