Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Marie Dressier writes for publication, her words are often more sentimental than spontaneous. The flavor of a character which is attractive because it has remained warm, vulgar, direct, somewhat unsophisticated but far from unwise is conveyed better in the extemporaneous Dressier aphorisms that Hollywood especially admires. "I ought to have had a dozen kids and made their clothes and done their washing. . . . I always felt sorry for beautiful women. . . . Keep working always. 'It brings luck. ... A lady may stand on her head in a perfectly decent self-respecting way. . . ." Said Marie Dressier when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered...
Travers was an architect. He built vulgar edifices for the masses, which made him money and a reputation but somehow did not satisfy him. Travers was also a bit fuzzy. Returning from a trip to the U. S. he is met by his pretty young wife at Liverpool. Travers wanders off to buy a book, becomes innocently involved in a street brawl, is taken in tow by a mysterious florist in the pay of the internationally omnipotent Lord Snarge...
Among places to go to, beside the Streets of Paris, are these: The Pirate Ship, which vulgar "Texas" Guinan left in disgust last week; the vast Old Manhattan Gardens, where the girls wear nothing but silver paint; Old Mexico, where some more employes of C. C. Pyle do the rumba; the Days of '49, which had very friendly dance hall girls at first...
...famed old Police Gazette, pink-covered journal of sports news and chorus girls' pictures, fell victim to the Depression. In its 88 years it had passed through a variety of incarnations, beginning as "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions. . . ." It "crusaded against vice" with marvelous and explicit gusto. Under the administration of the late Richard Kyle Fox, who bought the Gazette in 1876, it gained fame as an arbiter and promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops that it was called "The Barber...
...famed old Police Gazette, pink-covered journal of sports news and chorus girls' pictures, fell victim to the Depression. In its 88 years it had passed through a variety of incarnations, beginning as "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions. . . ." It "crusaded against vice" with marvelous and explicit gusto. Under the administration of the late Richard Kyle Fox, who bought the Gazette in 1876, it gained fame as an arbiter and promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops that it was called "The Barber...