Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond idled over the rail of bridge, concealed from the vulgar gaze by the gathering dusk and by the bulky base of the great salt-shaker pillar. The subway trains, momentarily elevated, flashed by, each square of light framing the back of a head, a neck and a pair of shoulders. Twelve minutes from the South Station, said the Rollo Book, in the misty past when the Vagabond made his first trip to Cambridge. As inaccurate as the catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty...
Although certain instruments are capable of producing vulgar onomatopoeic sounds, the Committee of Five stated that it would censor only song words or titles with questionable or double meanings. It intends meeting weekly, publishing lists of banned titles, claims the backing of orchestra leaders throughout the land. Lists will also be sent to music publishers with requests that lyricists change their sentiments to conform to Committee of Five standards...
...striking plot if he had been able to think of them." But Maugham gives Chekhov his due: "I do not know that anyone . . . has so poignantly been able to represent spirit communing with spirit. It is this that makes one feel that Maupassant, in comparison, is obvious and vulgar...
Sample of Author Muggeridge's distaste for Russia: "Jerry-built immensity made and inhabited by slaves. Everything most bestial and most vulgar-barbarian arrogance and salesman servility; humanitarian sentimentality and hypocrisy; rotarian Big Business and Prosperity. . . . Do you really believe . . . that these awful plays are good; these wretched people happy; these revolting Jews, great leaders and prophets; these decrepit buildings, fine architecture; these dingy slums, new socialist cities; these empty slogans bawled mechanically, a new religion; these stale ideas (superficial in themselves and even then misunderstood), the foundation and hope of the future...
...however, the CRIMSON is saying in effect, "Let us be gentlemen in the matter. . After all the objectionable aspects of Nazism are only used to keep the vulgar mobs in control. There is no reason why the methods which Gentlemen are forced to soil their fingers with in the market place should be used to discredit them among other Gentlemen in the drawing room. Business is business;" if the CRIMSON is saying this, then we can have no discussion with it. For we, too, consider that Nazism is the weapon of the German Gentlemen to keep the German mobs...