Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecturers on The Drama. They are apt to forget that there exists in the U. S. a lusty native parallel of the commedia to teach esthetes what a real old Harlequinade was like: the Burlesque Show. Like the commedia before the days of the great Debureau, Burlesque is vulgar entertainment catering to the masses, often frankly obscene. Like the commedia, Burlesque is based on "bits" that have been handed down from one troupe to the next for generations. The Jew and the tramp comedians wear costumes that have become as standardized, as remote from ordinary life as the costumes...
...indeed the beloved leveret will frequent his castle no more, the university has suffered an irreplaceable loss. A nondescript jackrabbit might satisfy the vulgar and undiscriminating, but only the original leporine monarch or his direct descendant could command the loyalty of the legitimists...
...body's rich speech is what serious Wigmanites seek to have emphasized over the vulgar view of their work as strange gymnastics. Wigman beginners are instructed not to think, to become mental vacuums so that they may feel some rhythmic, primitive urge and move accordingly. The urge may or may not be pretty. Dancer Wigman can make it grimly angular and austere. She is close to 50, but she can fill the stage with stark, driving energy. In her dark moods, emphasized by monotonous offstage drumbeats, she is more impressive than when she feels mellow and pastoral...
From New Orleans came Professor A. L. Voss to invite the Council there for its next meeting, and to report on the Four Most Common Vulgar Errors. Especially to be heard in the easy-going South, they are: "ain't," "I done" or "I seen," ''them things," and "I didn't do nothing...
...impressive gain made by the tabloid Mirror could hardly be accounted for by former World readers. And it is a question whether Hearst's evening Journal drew more of its new readers from the late Evening World or the vulgar tabloid Graphic...