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...Campos went back to court. Since there is no such crime as sedition under Puerto Rican law, many peaceable advocates of independence were enraged at this imperialistic intrusion of U. S. law on their island. Liberals denounced it as a brutal attack on a man who is not a "vulgar criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Sedition & Students | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Officially in Moscow this week Young Communist headquarters summed up against pampered Stuck-Up Stakhanovites: "It is high time to deal drastically with the vulgar and servile people who corrupt and spoil our glorious noble youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stuck-Up Stakhanovites | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...ever mentioned the drawing room. The mark of a "gentlewoman" was consideration of others. Being late for an engagement was "ill-bred, vulgar, irresponsible or ostentatious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...product of an inventive cinema salesman from the West Coast. Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, 32, worked for Universal Pictures Corp., until five years ago when he staged the first commercial Walkathon in Denver. He promoted 22 more, grossed $2,000,000, retired because he felt that Walkathons were becoming vulgar. He inaugurated the Roller Derby in Chicago last August, held two more in Louisville and Kansas City. Roller Derby teams are selected from the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association, formed by Promoter Seltzer last year to help popularize his new pastime. On 1,600 rinks, the 3.000 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roller Derby | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...from comparisons in their reviews. But the Metropolitan lobby was a hotbed of discussion as to which of the two new Carmens had done the better job. Wettergren, like Ponselle, indulged in occasional exaggerated horseplay, tweaked various noses, poked choristers in the ribs. But she was never so flagrantly vulgar as the Connecticut Carmen. Ponselle's voice is much richer, but the Swedish soprano used hers with more taste and intelligence, gave the part more variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swedish Carmen | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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