Word: vulgarizer
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...Vulgar insults and apologies of crime must be repressed not only when they explode criminally in the streets or public squares but also in journalistic haunts during the preparatory phase of crime. Moreover, these calumnies have the flat crooked form of the boomerang, and, like that Australian weapon, finish sooner or later by returning of their own force to the feet of those who hurled them...
...gave both her sincere commendation. She did qualify this by suggesting that neither had a very direct connection with the practical, working stage, the stage known to the layman by the term "Broad-way". Like all other arts the theatre requires a certain amount of common sense, which if vulgar makes for box office receipts. "Shakespere", said the Barrie heroine, "was after all rather practical. He played for the gate, you know...
...country sides of England, eventually of the world (including Greenland), echoed and re-echoed. Sir Joseph died the third richest man in England ($140,000,000) in 1916, having virtually invented mass advertising-at least been its record utilizer. The genius that struck off those advertisements which some called vulgar, others "priceless," such as- Hark! the herald angels sing Beecham's pills are just the thing. Peace on earth and mercy mild, Two for a man and one for a child -passed to the son as a thinner, hotter flame...
Yesterday an exclusive New York firm, dealing in men's wear, opened, through its advertising columns, new and alluring vistas to the smart (sartorially) student. These merchants have it would seem, sox innumerable--not the common or vulgar type of sox, but something entirely different and revolutionary. To wit:--sox with the name of the wearer's alma mater embroidered, sewn or woven on the sides, where the clock usually runs. Thus, one sits down, adjusts one's trousers, crosses one's legs--and Jo! there is a Yale, Princeton, Michigan or what not man. While the possibilities are interesting...
...muse, they wantonly and with an often unintelligent iconoclasm destroy the temples of other muses. Such men, obviously, cannot stride the twin steeds of Pegasus and Propriety. Nor is this an ability remote from greatness. Bulls in so many china shons, they are often futile in conversation and vulgar...