Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is one version of Mrs. Brookins' utterances. The other is that Mrs. Brookins was mannerly; that the conductor was loud, vulgar, abusive...
...tuneful bonbon for fatigued capitalists (the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) to the rounded maturity of the Fourth Symphony-all played magnificently. When the concert was over, 100 guests remained, having been notified of a "Concert by a Visiting Orchestra -Sokolai Nikoloffsky, conductor." The program: I. Echoes from Home, song of Vulgar Vodka; II. Well-Tampered Prelude to Act III, Lohengrin; III. World Debut in America of Josepha Fuchsia, violiniste, in an Old Time Concerto by Vieuxtemps; IV. War Dance, Skilton-Coolefske. At the conclusion of the second number, Conductor Sokolai Nikoloffsky flourished his dirty pink coat sleeves, grimaced, leaped...
...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...
...network of nerves in the animal's, or human's, body to the spinal cord, and eventually to the brain. The virus of rabies is more active in cold weather than in warm. There are more dogs actually mad in December than in July, contrary to the vulgar belief in summer "dog days." Nor, as is all too often thought, are all dogs mad that may be seen running wildly, jaws slavering and eyes excited. A dog might be angry without being...
...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...