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...would really be good for "the 'pantywaist brigade' (and isn't that vulgar?)," snapped Cissie, to have a taste of war. Even Bill Bullitt "might have lost his insatiable appetite for intrigue before the present disaster" if he had "risked his young blood and guts and tears in the last World War instead of cutting dramatic capers at the Versailles Peace Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cissie Fuss | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Vulgar Light Sirs: Dewey's remark (TIME, June 5) to newspaper men, on entering the Hershey Hotel, sheds new and vulgar light on the Republican white hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...five-&-dime heiress, had a book on mother care thrown at her by ex-husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Eddie Cantor's ping-pong eyes and small potato voice have abetted many a vulgar nudge and giggle, but nobody ever thought of suppressing him as a menace to public morals. Nevertheless, last week that is just what happened to him. NBC cut Eddie Cantor off the air, in the middle of his act. In Manhattan he and Singer Nora Martin were telecasting an old tune, We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me, which Cantor sang in the 1941-42 Broadway musical, Banjo Eyes. NBC found some of the lyrics and some of the comedian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Belligerent First | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...respectable Puritan ate shad; he considered it vulgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Artifacts and Fancies | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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