Word: vulgarizations
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...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...
Malia felt that the Russian people "are charming, pleasant to meet, and interested to learn more about the West." Malia met Khrushchev and Bulganin at a cocktail party at the Kremlin. His impressions of the two leaders were that "Bulganin seemed bored and socially shy, while Khrushchev was vulgar and superficially exhuberant...
...double-page center spreads in defense "of that most fragile of human mechanisms: a poet." The paper ran photostats of Minou's green-inked scribbling, complete with its own expert's handwriting analysis ("imagination, energy, naive assurance") and psychological deductions ("harmoniously developed, neither stupid, nor poor nor vulgar...
...supper so that all the receipts would go to Poetry. He ran afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar" and Poetry not worth saving. ("He's nothing but an anthologist anyway," sniffed Lannan.) One Manhattan lawyer coldly refused to help, in the apparent belief that Poet Frost was some kind of subversive. "Don't you know there's a cold war on?" he asked...