Word: vulgarizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been an intimate friend of Dr. Spaeth for 48 years. During that time I never heard him use the vulgar expression credited to him as you related. I am very certain that this high-minded scholar and true sportsman never used the expression after his crew won the victory over Harvard...
...Assembly passed a resolution censuring the State House guard for permitting the "vulgar and burlesque" demonstrations of the week, requesting Governor Hoffman to prevent their recurrence. Assembly and Senate both passed resolutions requesting the Federal Government to return for relief funds $20,000,000 collected from New Jersey taxpayers. Then, unable to think of anything else to do, both Houses adjourned for two days, their leaders planning to confer in the more congenial atmosphere of a clubhouse. Encountering no opposition from the State House guard, Leader Cooke and "Speaker" Spain and their followers settled down once more on the Assembly...
...after the fifth depression of the accelerator rubber began to shrick on every curve. "This fellows's a fool," barked the driver of the Chevrolet, "he doesn't know when he's had enough." Suddenly the Ford began a Bedlam of horn-honking. It threw such an unchivalrous and vulgar element into the race that the Chevrolet driver immediately became so vexed that, together with a few bitter remarks, he stuck his arm out the window and rudely motioned for the Ford to pass. And pass he did. But alas! it was no gentleman driving the Ford. On the contrary...
...velleities toward the good life, true taste, beautiful women who were also ladies weakened as he drew on toward middle age; but before he had resigned himself to the role of gentleman amidst inferiors a legacy gave him the means of making a new start. He left his vulgar acquaintance, went to London to be a publisher and fall decently in love with some well-bred Diana. In Adria, a girl in 400, he met his ideal. Because he was used to commoner clay he put her on a pedestal, solaced his more natural hours with a French manicurist. Unfortunately...
...manicurist, a determined creature, followed him to Venice, the rest was easy. Though Francis never knew for certain how it happened that Adria took an overdose of sleeping-powder, he felt the responsibility was his. Too late he knew that he had profaned Adria's love by his vulgar idea of what was sacred...