Word: vulgarizer
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...India, who is as great an admirer of it as I myself. There is only one objection I have to it: that is, the pictures of the American men & women which appear in its columns from time to time. They-especially the women-are the most repulsively vulgar-looking people I have ever seen in print. And I have come to the conclusion that the primary cause of their very hideous appearance lies in the fact that you have no good, healthy, beautifying drinks in America, and you wilfully prevent men from making proper use of the most glorious...
...Bonus; in Washington (see p. 15). Died. Rev. Dr. Caleb Rochfort Stetson. 61, twelfth rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Anglo-Catholic in his communion, Dr. Stetson was a foe of divorce, birth-control. He denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when...
Just before this time Mrs. Cash had died saying, "I can live above such imputations." Then Col. Cash's son published the famed circular "Camden Soliloquies," jingling at Shannon: "My daddy was a gin-maker." Shannon then wrote: scurrilous, vulgar. libelous, false and dirty language." Cash replied : . . . I have with great reluctance come to the settled conclusion that you are the unmitigated scoundrel you have been represented...
...worst copyreader." Manhattan was his goal. He reached it in 1925, frittered away his money on Broadway before looking for a job. When the tabloid Mirror notified him he was hired, he stole an empty milk bottle to raise subway fare to go to work. From the vulgar Mirror Reporter Klein went to the patrician Evening Post where in the next four years his by-line became so familiar that in 1929 the American Press (trade-paper) thought it worthwhile to ask him why he was quitting to take a job in an advertising agency (TiME, Nov. 11, 1929). Excerpts...
...likes especially the traditions, now fast fading, which cling around the College Yard. For him each one as it passes is a laurel plucked by ruthless hands from John Harvard's pate. The Houses in their crass contemporaneity he is reconciled to not by the vulgar convenience of dining-room and private shower, but purely as breeding-grounds of the traditions of the future. In the meantime he feeds his soul on what remains of times done: the charming fatuity of a raucous voice calling for "Rinehart!" and especially the Yard Concerts, which are always with...