Word: vulgarizer
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Ebbecke of Bonn pointed put that, contrary to vulgar belief, white hands might be warm, red hands cold. Temperature depends upon the amount of blood in circulation. Tint depends upon the location of the capillaries through which the blood seeps...
...fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood would stagger the Prophet. It is one of the coarsest stories since Rabelais but too terribly vivid, dramatic and shrewdly intense to be vulgar, save as Jarnegan was vulgar, to his sorrow...
Other cartoonists concurrently represented Mr. Rudyard Kipling as a testy little man pounding a big bass drum with a broken stick; as a nasty little boy making faces at the lady who has just given him a piece of pie; as a nasty little boy embarrassing his parents by vulgar remarks in front of company. One and all were reproving Mr. Kipling for an inept and unmelodious bit of prevarication included in his new book* of stories and verses, published simultaneously last week in England...
...being more the teacher does a forensic tightrope act between vitality and the verbal norm. None of these three classes apparently dares give to the undergraduate food for thought, for all appear in constant trepidation lest undergraduates enjoy their lectures. Nor is this word "enjoy" used in any vulgar sense. No one wants Will Durant's "Outline of Philosophy" for his text book and aphorisms for his lecture room diet. But every undergraduate, except the born scholar with the ability to see life through the minute details of knowledge--and he is not to be disparaged, comes to Harvard University...
...prove themselves to the contrary they so remain. And there are certain definite duties of the student at Harvard, invested as he is with the freedom of Harvard. He must be a gentleman. A gentleman respects tradition. And the traditions of Harvard are quiet traditions. Nothing so bespeaks a vulgar and impoverished intellect as noise in word or action. He must be a thinking being. Nothing so departs from the norm of thinking as the quick adherence to futile and fanciful phenomena. With an open mind the member of the Class of 1930 who is to remain a real member...