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Word: vulgarities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jethro; RCA Victor). The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie. "My room it was so small,'' one of them croaks, that "evertime I tried to smile my teeth would touch the wall." No more vulgar than the prototype...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...wonder how many letters you have received from those of Irish descent regarding Randolph Churchill's comment on the "vulgar Kellys"? Such remarks make it almost impossible to understand or believe in the publicized advantages of British diplomacy and rule in the few dominions and colonies Britain still governs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...little French restaurants, where the soup tastes "like a prism," and she was always happy to tell him what Whistler had said to Oscar Wilde. She teased his tastes ("Does it want wose-colored silk shades on the . . . wamps?"), and she caught him up briskly when he lapsed into vulgar speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Awful It Is to Be Milt | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

People waving, screaming, "Go get em!" We will, sonny, don't you worry. Stupid girl, pointing at my knees. My word, I think I'm beginning to perspire. Vulgar...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: A Veteran's Guide to the Big Race | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...that the U.S. is well on its way to hell in a hand basket. Its leaders are morally bankrupt ("America is indeed without leaders"); its people are whipped around by TV and public-relations types and have almost nothing to do with deciding their political fate. Its rich are vulgar and mindless, its poor too gutless to do anything about their condition; its labor leaders impotent fellows and "government-made men." U.S. generals and admirals are "warlords" who pursue their dreadful projects in the mazes of the Pentagon with a total disregard for what the citizenry thinks or wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Bad Americans | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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