Word: vulgarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their apparent approaching fight to calm down the American servicemen in their country. Having spent four years in the U.S. Navy, I have seen broken and ruined furniture in some of the finest hotels in Europe, all left behind by G.Ls. As a lot they are a group of vulgar-mouthed, bragging, drunken apes who roam the streets of foreign countries seeking someone to insult or something to destroy...
...over the exultation he felt in 1917 when the Russian Revolution opened up a "Socialist" era in history. To an equally incalculable degree, India's policy toward the U.S. is affected by Nehru's upper-class Edwardian English contempt for the U.S. as a nation of "vulgar" people who talk about money. To a highly measurable degree, India's behavior toward any power is affected by the extent to which that power feeds Nehru's vanity by seeking his advice on Asian affairs. The British, Russians and Chinese do, and Nehru forgives them even when...
...rude Professor Higgins, touching as she manfully struggles with a mouthful of marbles (when she swallows one, Higgins says cheerily: "Oh, don't worry, I have plenty more"), uproariously funny as she balances a teacup opening day at Ascot and betrays her elegant new accent with hopelessly vulgar reminiscences of her aunt's influenza. ("My aunt died of influenza, so they said, but it's my belief they done the old woman in ... My father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Then she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl of the spoon...
...cheerful, philosophy is always breaking in, and no sooner does philosophy take its ease than show business bangs loudly on the door. For all Shirley Yamaguchi's sweet reedy singing, and the libretto's thoughtful and pretty words, Utopia seems freshened up by a touch of vulgar Broadway speed or a bit of Harold Langri-la. Lang and Joan
...atrocious intellectual engaged in writing a great poem. His mother washes his hair for him, while he dreams of himself as Messire Bernardus Riccio, a Machiavellian figure. The landlady's brother, James Patrick Madden, is back from New York and thought to be rich; although a vulgar sort, Madden is Judith's last hope for a husband. The parish priest is a hard, harsh, unimaginative zealot called Father Quigley. Like all such spinsters, Miss Hearne has rich and happy friends-Professor Owen O'Neill and his family, but these, too, fail her because she comes to understand...