Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marathon race on roller skates. Promoter Seltzer invented Roller Derbies- entrance to which can be attained only by winning elimination races in the Seltzer Roller Derby Association, with 3,000 members at $2 each-a year ago, to replace his Walkathons which he said were beginning to grow vulgar. By last winter he had selected a group of teams who competed successively in Chicago (TIME, Feb. 3), Miami. Louisville, Detroit for one month each. With rules patterned after six-day bicycle races, except that both members of the teams are allowed to leave the track between...
...without making the direct appeal to class distinction and class hatreds as obvious and bitter as in his spring speeches. The new line is to be highly idealistic, so lofty that mere matters of budgets and taxes, debts and New Deal failures will be made to appear crude and vulgar. . . . The chief custodian of this plan of action ... is Dr. Stanley High...
...leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations...
Serious Laborites have called Jim Thomas a traitor to his party for joining the National Government. Jealous socialites call him a vulgar little bounder. Last week both groups were after his hide when Colonial Secretary James Henry Thomas appeared before Mr. Justice Porter to testify on the Budget leak...
...TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). To Teheran went word last week that the end of insults was not yet. Though Iran's chargé d'affaires, Hossein Ghods, has already left the U. S. in the wake of his chief, the U. S. Customs was vulgar enough to suggest that Iran's chargé d'affaires was little better than a common smuggler...