Word: vulgarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish bath, a wine closet, a St. Bernard dog woofing to the name of Mr. T-Bone Towser). Local reporters converged on the track where Beebe was parked with his traveling companion, Charles Clegg. Q.: "How much did this rolling stock cost?" Beebe (Shuddering slightly): "That's vulgar!" Clegg (to newsmen): "I wouldn't ask how much your suit cost." Beebe: "But Governor Harriman just bought a railroad car for $500,000." Clegg: "And they tell me it's real plain." A newshen (to Beebe's chef): "What do they drink, mostly?" Chef: "Everything, lady...
...center looked on in shocked silence. "You are a danger to the Republic," one aroused Deputy shouted at the Poujadists. "Yes-to the republic of cronies," retorted Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen. The Chamber of Deputies, which had been stunned to discover the voters of France had elected 53 vulgar persons called Poujadists to their republic of cronies, was trying to get rid of the fellows by other means...
...faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar humor. Like the rest of the work, Mack the Knife* was a bitter satire of society and of schmalzy, popular music; it gave a ragtime catalogue of murder, arson and rape...
...brothers started building racing cars in 1899 in a shop in his mother's backyard. By 1908 the shop was a 50,000-sq.yd. factory in Billancourt, near Paris. Its 3,000 workers were soon building 5,000 Renault automobiles a year. And Louis Renault owned it all. Vulgar, loud, domineering, impatient, he was a terror to associates, a friend to practically none. To the French working man, Renault became "the ogre of Billancourt." He instituted piecework, maintained an internal intelligence and security system similar to that of Henry Ford (whom he knew and admired), ordered searches of workers...
...swallowtails, assembled for the banner day. Deeply touched, Milionário Adonis later reportedly choked out wet-eyed promises to shower Montemarano with philanthropy. Soon a Red delegate in Italy's Chamber of Deputies demanded that the government slap down Montemarano's mayor for putting on the vulgar demonstration. At week's end, Adonis drifted up to Rome on a little junket. Roman cops nabbed him in the outskirts of the city, told him he was a "socially undesirable element," handed him a oneway ticket back to Montemarano...