Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Education President A. P. Ortquist retorted: "It is criminal to spend the taxpayers' money to teach girls to bob hair and clean fingernails." (TIME noted on March 2, 1925 that the Daisy Chain ceremony would continue at Vassar, even though critics condemned it as "cheap and vulgar," resembling "a bathing-beauty contest...
...rodeo roughnecks wahooed out of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden when the gentlefolk of horsedom cantered in. Unmannerly broncos and bucking Brahman bulls were replaced by mannerly hunters and harness ponies, five-gaited mares that would no more buck than fly. The crowd was different too: vulgar cheers were taboo; from the Golden Oval of boxes came only polite applause, an occasional bravo that rang no rafters. With its black toppers, red tail coats and trumpets signaling the start of Manhattan's social season, last week the 63rd National Horse Show was in full swing...
Slices of Flesh. Although ill health has forced him to give up his regular magazine work, Matania is convinced that there is still a demand for his nudes, intends "to live as long as I can" and paint them. Leggy modern pinups he considers poor stuff. "Vulgar and artificial," he says. "Copies of photographs with slices of lovely flesh cut off the thighs...
...Studebaker, 1939 Cadillac 60 Special and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. Wrote Connoisseur Drexler in an accolade that, by clear implication, also rejected a good many other models that have come down the pike: "These cars contradict the claim that the American public prefers what is ugly, gross, or even vulgar . . . The dollar grin, as the American grille is known abroad, does not represent our best effort...
...said nothing-nor did Claire's mother, who gave up and headed back to the U.S. But her Italian lawyer, Niccolo Bonelli, had a few words. Said he: "In any case the story is now completely over for us . . . We consider that Claire has been ruined by a vulgar delinquent...