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Word: vulgarize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Margaret, at 28, has spirit enough to marry Colum even though it means leaving dear old daddy, who has been so dependent on her. At first, Colum is just wonderful to Margaret, but his friends seem a tacky lot. There is Mrs. Belmore, the rich, vulgar American, and beautiful but unladylike Lauriol, who seems to have certain claims on Colum that Margaret does not care to think about. More unsettling is the fact that Colum rapidly proves himself to be an unmitigated liar and a compulsive thief. One of his pranks causes the death of Mrs. Belmore, a nasty brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Wifey's Buddy. Poe was one of those drinkers to whom one jigger was the same as a jug. He enriched Thomas White, the "illiterate, vulgar although well-meaning" editor of the Messenger, but White was forced to record: "Poe has flew the track." Another time he wrote Poe, fearing "that you would again sip the juice," adding the wisdom of a spacious age: "No man is safe who drinks before breakfast." As if drink were not bad enough, Poe almost certainly was a drug addict; more than one of his fictional characters confessed to being "a bonden slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poltergeist in the Parlor | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

There had only been shouts, stones and vulgar slogans, and the unusual spectacle of a high U.S. representative conducted about a Middle Eastern city like a hunted criminal. Yet, if Fritzlan had followed the route from the airport that the mob had expected, the embassy car would certainly have been stopped, probably overturned and set afire, and the men inside could have been in gravest peril. If General Kassem had not wanted William Rountree humiliated or worse, he showed an inefficiency and stupidity not previously apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Top U.S. Envoy Hunted through Baghdad Streets | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...marshal, "there are obvious advantages in being twins. So when we returned, with very little subterfuge on our parts, the doctors got us completely mixed up. I passed in with flying colors on David's eyes, and he on the strength and quality of my-er-more vulgar but nonetheless useful contribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...they seem not nearly so dull and small as they are supposed to (next to, say, Willy Loman they are a riot of color), it is probably because they are English. Their very ordinariness has the charm of the foreign and strange and picturesque; perhaps, also, English vulgarity is simply not so vulgar as ours...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: George Dillon: First Of Osborne's Angries | 12/12/1958 | See Source »

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