Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transformed into a private debt, by selling German bonds in the world market and using the cash realized to pay off the state debt at once, leaving the new private debt to be paid off in the course of years. Thus a lofty obligation would be "commercialized" into a vulgar loan. The advantage to the Governments concerned would be that, if Germany should default, mere private citizens would be left holding...
...records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics of vulgar splendor and reckless abandon, recorded so readably in Jubilee...
...Baldwin rounded out an unusually philosophical week by addressing a banquet in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Spectator, famed British weekly review. Harking back to the U. S. Civil War, Orator Baldwin recalled that in 1863 the Spectator alluded to: "Mr. Lincoln's modest and somewhat vulgar but respectable statesmanship...
Snobbery. Democrats insisted that, stronger than any distinction as to honesty or ability, the electorate made a social distinction between the nominees; that the President-reject was "whispered" about for his lack of polish, for his spitting on floors, rough voice, vulgar accent. Democrats were only infuriated when Republicans, admitting this charge, said...
People who know that famed Revue Comedienne Beatrice Lillie is also Lady Peel were struck by the coincidence. It was fun to imagine the often studiously vulgar Beatrice capering and kicking her heels high at India House. Of course she will never do so. For Lady (Beatrice Lillie) Peel is not the spouse of Lord Peel, but merely the wife of Sir Robert Peel, Baronet...