Word: vulgarizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your facts were not only untrue but were vulgar to the extreme. Why did you burlesque me with beer drinking? Although I do not dislike the beverage, I did not at any time make reference to drinking gallons of it. I was misquoted throughout the entire article, especially the part which said: "They want to show those films through the colonies and say 'Look what we have done for Dunbar' - but it is not the British who have done it for me, it is the Americans...
...demanded further appeasement. (Example: as an undergraduate cutup, the rake, or notorious gentleman, one day climbs an Oxford monument to deposit a chamber pot on the spire.* The Johnston Office, either on the grounds that a thundermug was an affront to American plumberhood or that it was just plain vulgar, substituted a silk...
Very little of the pay is used for "pork chops." The most of it is used for booze and women, all in a loud, vulgar display that advertises the U.S. abroad most disgracefully...
Said Izvestia last week: "A complete lack of ideas, low professional culture, bad taste-these are characteristics of the band. . . . Homemade wit and a vulgar musical stew . . . fills nearly all the program. . . . Perhaps this can be tolerated in forgotten places of western Europe, but not on the Soviet stage...
...made them stand out as far as the smearing fist in his Self Portrait (see cut). Siqueiros' second entry was relatively calm-a green and gold description of three muscular, writhing gourds-but it was not quite so innocuous as it looked. In Spanish, calabazas (gourds) is a vulgar insult when spoken without a smile. Explained Siqueiros: the three calabazas stand for the three Government schools in charge of the competition...