Word: vulgarizations
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...shown planning to manufacture homebrew, they are next seen being sentenced to prison because of their clumsiness. Added to the basic handicap of the Laurel face - blank, ugly, absurd -is the handicap in Pardon Us of a loose tooth which causes him to punctuate all his sentences with a vulgar and sarcastic noise...
...virtue or vice. . . . Women are frauds because they pretend to be the artistic sex, which is untrue, since there are no really great feminine poets and artists, while women musicians spend their time playing and singing music written by men. . . . Education exists to prevent people from being vulgar, stupid and ignorant." On one occasion, lecturing to his students, he proved irrefutably that the Almighty is an Old Etonian. When Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford visited England in 1923 and expressed a desire to visit Eton, Dr. Alington said: "Pickford? Fairbanks? Who are they?" Dr. Alington says that by his bedside...
...newsmen, including many oldtime baiters of the Bride, to receive polite and smiling welcome. For eight long hours, the honeymooners entertained the Press. As they posed on the beach, on the cottage steps, in the hammock, the Bride jollied her old acquaintances. One remark: "Perhaps I have a vulgar taste. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of reporters, riding along with me on trains, telling me about their own troubles after their long stories had been filed. I like beautiful jewelry. I love beautiful clothes, stockings that cost lots of money. I'm going to like...
...that the U.S. system of competition among broadcasters "is preventing you from getting full value out of your key men." Recommending Britain's rigidly uncommercial programs, he added: "I submit that there is a risk of educational ballyhoo as well as of commercial ballyhoo. It is not so vulgar; it is less aggressive, different in form, quite different in motive; but is it not more or less the same fundamentally-an assertion that this labeled brand of soap is the only soap? It has been discovered that this is not the way to sell goods to a radio audience...
...know that many Englishmen sneer at the North American idea of publicity and describe their methods of boosting as vulgar. . . . I am sorry to say that we are sadly behind the times in the field of advertising...