Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these things his box was filled with bids, which he answered in person. By virtue of these things his classmates, descendants of the purest Puritans, or only sons of Midwestern farmers, his classmates who wore their shabbiest clothes as was the fashion, and who hated spending, which is vulgar, misunderstood him, then forgot him. So he devoted himself to the world of engraved bids, and at the end of the year received a polite note consigning him to that other world, from which there is no return--to Cambridge. The Freshman dropped from sight and mind, and of him nothing...
...trouble to perform it at all. Berlioz blared out his indignations as he did much of his music. When a French editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules, or the bosom of Venus, strut about with as much pride and satisfaction as if they had laid a golden egg." Composing never...
...killed 1,557 bulls, was gored badly three times, killed the fourth time; the almost crippled Belmonte (retired), "greatest living bullfighter"; Villalta, brave but "awkward looking as a praying mantis" with a difficult bull; Ortega, at present one of Spain's most acclaimed matadors, whom Hemingway characterizes as "ignorant, vulgar and low"; Lalanda. "unquestionably the master of all present fighters"; Freg, the Mexican veteran who has 72 wounds, has been given extreme unction five different times...
...Walker's friendship with Actress Betty Compton, who suddenly married Cinema Director Edward Duryea Dowling last year and left town (TIME, March 2, 1931). Most neatly timed of the topical cinemas which Hollywood has recently furnished, this one is also one of the least instructive, most diverting. More vulgar than Mayor Walker, Mayor Kingston has himself measured for a suit in the presence of guests. Less able than his prototype, Mayor Kingston cannot tie his own black tie. Before his valet does it for him, he startles his master by saying: "Please lie down. I used...
...Paul had leanings towards saintliness. Out of business hours he read and thought much about the Roman Catholic Church. When he finally decided to join it Björg was unsympathetic; when she found he intended to bring up their children as Catholics she was downright upset. Her vulgar, cheap-scheming mother encouraged her to leave Paul, have a good time with flashy friends. Paul took Björg as she came and went, worked away at his business, his religion, his children, was quiet and peaceable, full of compassion in all his dealings...