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This somewhat ambiguous statement becomes much clearer when referred to the pages of "THE SLANG DICTIONARY; OR, THE VULGAR WORDS, STREET PHRASES, AND "FAST" EXPRESSIONS OF HIGH AND LOW SOCIETY--LONDON: 1867. Here then is the explanation...
...artists more liberty than they realize, for proceedings against them are usually extralegal. The statute in New York, the result of the efforts of the late Anthony Comstock has received a liberal interpretation. Ordinarily, to be suppressed: (1) a book, play, or picture must be lewd and not merely vulgar or sacrilegious; (2) it must be objectionable as an entirety and not merely in a part or scattered parts: and (3) judge and jury must agree that it is objectionable...
...gives the Mahler symphonies with great enthusiasm, while Mr. Bodansky, with his admirable " Friends of Music " organization, performs the composer's smaller orchestral and choral pieces with devoted artistry. It is difficult to evaluate the Mahler works without many hearings. On first impression, they are bad, shapeless, strident, vulgar, but after listening in boredom for half an hour you get a vague sense of the prodigious. Certainly you feel a tremendous earnestness. Perhaps it is an earnestness without talent. Perhaps there may be a deeper talent in the music. Two new figures are prominent in the New York musical...
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, Feb. 26--Contrary to popular imagination, the last weeks of the Lent term are amongst the busiest of the whole academic year. It is, in vulgar parlance, the close of the "winter season", the time when the piece de resistance of many a club and society's program is held, whilst "annual dinners" are consumed nightly in the hostelries of the town...
...Lenin is not in good health at all and needs something to amuse him, something like Beerbohm Tree's Hamlet, which Sir W. S. Gilbert said was funny, without being vulgar. Trotsky needs distraction and Litvinoff has a sense of humor and there is no earthly reason why Senator Borah should not have a really good time...