Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexis Green, wearer of flowing Windsor ties, announced that he would never again attend a White House function as long as the Hoovers were there. On the floor of the Senate, South Carolina's Senator Blease, coarsely harangued Mrs. Hoover, had the clerk read into the Congressional Record a vulgar doggerel, concluding...
...Healy to remark: "The pool rooms are empty." This group becomes embroiled with a wrestling bear which seems more human than any of them except Mr. Healy. Later the wrestlers try a fearsome barber-shop ballad to the accompaniment of Mr. Healy's orchestra. These scenes are blunt, vulgar, hilarious. A plump-cheeked brunette, Betsy Rees, might well be given more time...
...frantic conference with the Overseers, Trustees and the heads of Lee Higginson (perhaps a redundant grouping) hotly denied that there was any truth in the story at all. Boston correspondents would be quite justified in asking Harvard authorities either to make up their minds or withdraw from such vulgar activities as publicity. New Yorker...
Eager newsmen pressed about the prison for detailed news of Convict Sinclair's daily doings. An order was issued barring them from the jail. Washington newspapers became indignant. In the U. S. Senate, Alabama's ever-loud Heflin denounced "this truckling to a vulgar millionaire." The Sinclair privacy became an editorial issue. The order was rescinded, the Press re-entered the jail...
...shrewd and rather cruel story of an American spinster whose corpse, lying in the Paris Ritz, is robbed by her fake-duchess friend and guarded by her lifelong enemy, "the cat that lived at the Ritz." The final tale, "The Apothecary," is a grim parable of the vulgar and aging rich who gather around them impoverished Parisians with cheap titles and cheaper morals. In a "quaint" apartment over an apothecary's shop in the Faubourg St. Germain, a noisy female parasite gives a dinner to consolidate her waning position. To jaded guests she offers, as entertainment and prey...