Word: vulgarity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...special balck-list, and we know too well now the predilections of a certain friend in Boston who provides us with front row seats with an air of a charitable man. The galleries will probably come into their Elizabethan popularity again, and we shall learn to despise that vulgar place, the pit. Sleeping car reservations need hardly be mentioned. They follow along with all the other luxuries...
...London." At times it seemed little more than a rich succession of grunts, growls, "By Gads," "demnition sirs," but even out of these husky trifles a man of Mr. Drew's talented staginess can produce a characterization. Next to the star, Miss Alison Skipworth, as a fat and vulgar Lady Clavering, is most worth seeing. Mr. Charles Kennedy was exceedingly funny as one of those preposterous stage Irishmen "made in England." The real Irishman is something so appalingly different from the invention that sometimes he has to be stood up against a wall and shot. CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
...constant risk of their own, to be reminded that "they were guilty of a misconception of duty"; that they are verging on "a double disloyalty"; and that, when all is said, "they are failing both the nation and the race." It has come to this then, that the vulgar fanaticism of that editor, and those like him, can turn on the finest expression of American activity the war has produced; that a wretched conceited little scribbler, sitting in his sanctum, can offer impertinent advice and a gratuitous insult to his own classmates who are working and dying while...
...Morosco's clever, frank, and somewhat unrefined musical farces. Like "So Long Letty," which was here a short time ago, this piece treats of western life in the rough, and like it, was produced first on the Pacific coast and then brought here. That it contains a wealth of vulgar humor there is no denying; but the vulgarity, or frankness as it might better be called, is introduced as the means rather than...
Shades of Emerson and Longfellow! Will the Juggernaut of modern progress have no mercy? Is Cantabrigian conservatism to die without a gasp? Consider the awful consequences of such a vulgar union...