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Word: vulgarly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organ, founded by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, took the crack at Bolshevism for which all Italians were itching: "We are born antiCommunists, and we intend to remain so. We have not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, who are tragic buffoons, professional tricksters, models of vulgar bestiality, living monsters serving the most insane and infamous enterprise of subjugation, cruelty and human degredation which universal history can recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Retreat of the West | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Washington Rep. Dewey Short (Missouri, R.), squawked that the Federal Theatre Project produced plays with "suggestive or salacious" titles, cited as samples of "vulgar and villainous activities which the people of the U. S. must be taxed for" : The Bishop Misbehaves, Companion-mate Maggie, Just a Love Nest, The King and the Chorus Girl, Lend Me Your Husband, Old Captain Romeo's Four Wives, Up in Mabel's Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...vulgar arrest attention with say; the more vulgar with listen; the most vulgar with lookit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Don't Say It! | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...changes shape in his dream: sometimes he is H. C. Earwicker, but sometimes he is Here Comes Everybody, or Haveth Childers Everywhere. Sometimes he is an old man, worried, half-sick, mixed up in vulgar and unpleasant affairs, sometimes his dreams spring back to his youth when he was, in Critic Wilson's words, "carefree, attractive, well-liked ... as dawn approaches, as he becomes dimly aware of the first light, the dream begins to brighten and to rise unencumbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...boudoir decoration, went hell-bent in two directions: moony romanticism and substantial realism. Several minor pictures illustrated the first; Gustave Courbet's Midday Dream (see cut) exemplified both. Courbet was a law student whose paintings of such big, authentically voluptuous women struck Parisians of the 1850s as "vulgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: CLASSIC NUDITY | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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