Word: vulgarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Explosions boomed; sirens howled. Police whistles trilled madly as Legionnaires decoyed harried truck drivers to the curb. One night, hundreds of shirt-sleeved Legionnaires hung out the windows of the Taft and Victoria Hotels, fired barrages of water-filled paper bags across 51st Street at each other, howled with vulgar glee as the missiles fell short and plummeted into the crowd below...
Against a Closed Shop. The son of a bullfighter, Manolete had been born into that world of stylized drama, of vanity, vulgar pomp and sublime grace. He was as great as Belmonte, who dominated the "golden age" of the '20s. Manolete followed the restrained, classical tradition of Belmonte, but he worked even closer to the bulls, spinning them around him, horns a fraction of an inch away. Manolete could do this without bravado, relaxed, dignified, almost pensive...
...family again and his best girl. Lucinda took one look at his peg leg and wept. But they were married anyhow, and after the ceremony the bridegroom got drunk, punched his best man in the teeth, and sang bawdy songs for the guests. "Oh, the vulgar, degrading army," moaned his mother next morning. Milt, his head aching almost as badly as his stump, figured he had better light out for the West...
...office of this proletarian dignitary, you pass through a courtyard with Verrocchio's famous bronze put to, then up the stairs to the great hall with its Vasari frescoes and a Michelangelo statue, thence into an anteroom which used to be Pope Leo's chamber. Nothing so vulgar as a "no smoking" sign could be tolerated here; carefully chiseled stone tablets proclaim: "ll Sind-aco proibisce di fumare in questa sola" (The Mayor forbids smoking in this hall...
...melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...