Word: vulgarizations
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Opened momentously at Paris, last week, the Spring and Summer salon of many a great couturier. No vulgar "fashion display," they permitted only a discreet preview by connoisseurs. Finally connoisseurs in the pre-know could tick off certain Parisian germs of fashion sure to flower into world trends...
...solely among the "scholar swells" he despised, and that he is absolutely unknown to the commonality of man for whom he professed to write, or that the incredibly ornate pish-posh of Henry James is explained by his belief that legible and comprehensive language of any sort is very vulgar, just, for instance, as an editor of the Harvard Crimson believes that any news anybody could conceivably want to read is very vulgar and therefore unprintable, to point out these is to illuminate the obvious...
...Christians. One may also maintain that the modern concern in this matte is purely philosophical: but there is little justification for this latter assumption. The modern attitude toward this subject, though of much smaller proportions than the ancient, is, nevertheless, of exactly the same nature. It is a vulgar pleasure taken in the knowledge of the mental agony experienced by "those about to die". But possibly the fault lies equally with the journalist, who places before his public such sordid material. Would not Pioneer's financial policy of Mussolini's relations with the papacy from a sufficiently worthy substitute...
...strains of syncopation, and the Vagabond, not given to such things, realized almost with a start, that he was sitting out a dance with a veritable "wow", a "knock-out", a "hot mama". (Note the quotation marks, which show that the Vagabond does not wholly approve of the vulgar phrasing, used here only for emphasis. The gist of what he means to convey, and the terms the Vagabond himself would use, being a gentleman of the old school, would be belle, or shall we say charmer...
...throes of a series of adventures as difficult if not quite so herioc as those in which the Rover Boys once acquitted themselves. Bouncing about this time from clouds to shell-torn battlefields, their misfortunes are ridiculous enough to be laughable. Most laughable is a scene, perhaps the most vulgar ever photographed, in which the two are impersonating the front and hind legs of a cow-a cow which is naturally incapable of the functions most commonly associated with its kind. It must be admitted that Funnyman Berry is about ten times funnier than his partner and that the canny...