Word: vulgarizer
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Perfection has almost been attained in the sordid business of making a living. The gifted man need no longer trouble his brain with the vulgar strife of ordinary mortals, he need not even incur the sin of wishing that a wealthy forebear be relieved from the pains of earthly existence. He need only consent to have his name spread abroad in the land on some article of common use and then enjoy the tribute he draws from an appreciative world. Only one difficulty yet remains, he must first go through the difficult, perhaps dangerous, process of becoming a popular hero...
...away from all that kind of thing that the Chicago women are having their own club, I'm certain. Wearing knickers has nothing whatever to do with it and anyway, I'm sure no member of the Illinois Women's Golf Club here would be so vulgar as to wear knickers at any golf club, even in the middle of the night...
...never hope to read one, But TIME, repeating all their smut, Seems trying hard to be one. This, of course, is mostly in fun. It will bear some thought, nevertheless. Certainly your reference in a recent issue to an "alleged" virgin Queen is about as questionable taste and as vulgar as anything which the tabloids are reputed to have printed. Its cleverness, if it can be called "clever," does not excuse...
...will not hear from me but once the word 'Wet' or 'Dry.' I do not use them, first, because they are vulgar, and, second, because they are meaningless. My sense of humor protects me from applying the word 'Dry' to those supporters of a policy which has filled this nation, from Atlantic to Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, with a traffic in intoxicating liquor, wholesale and retail, that is illicit, illegal, untaxed and stupendously profitable...
...seizing the Adriatic shore of Jugoslavia along which Italians already own 96% of all producer wealth: factories, steamship lines, etc. Therefore, if Il Duce could establish close rapprochement with all the countries bounding Jugoslavia, he would have laid the noose for hog-tying that realm. This, in a vulgar word, was what Il Duce and Count Bethlen did last week...