Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When silver became king and William Jennings Bryan was its herald, mining and cattle men splashed with their fortunes into Denver. Notable was vulgar Senator Horace Arthur Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor who built the pretentious Tabor Grand Opera House, birthplace of Denver's culture, now the Tabor Grand, a cinemansion. Of Shakespeare's picture on the proscenium, Tabor said, "What the hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night...
...India, who is as great an admirer of it as I myself. There is only one objection I have to it: that is, the pictures of the American men & women which appear in its columns from time to time. They-especially the women-are the most repulsively vulgar-looking people I have ever seen in print. And I have come to the conclusion that the primary cause of their very hideous appearance lies in the fact that you have no good, healthy, beautifying drinks in America, and you wilfully prevent men from making proper use of the most glorious...
...genius." Up rose one James Clark, U. S. escort of the Englishwomen. "Monsieur," said he, "you have insulted two ladies." Legionnaire Arnaud challenged Clark to a duel with rapiers. Mr. Clark, demanding his right as the challenged party, stipulated fists. M. Arnaud replied that if Mr. Clark wished a vulgar brawl he would send his chauffeur to fight him. Mr. Clark hit M. Arnaud on the chin. Gendarmes separated the two. M. Poiret went home...
...Bonus; in Washington (see p. 15). Died. Rev. Dr. Caleb Rochfort Stetson. 61, twelfth rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Anglo-Catholic in his communion, Dr. Stetson was a foe of divorce, birth-control. He denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when...
Just before this time Mrs. Cash had died saying, "I can live above such imputations." Then Col. Cash's son published the famed circular "Camden Soliloquies," jingling at Shannon: "My daddy was a gin-maker." Shannon then wrote: scurrilous, vulgar. libelous, false and dirty language." Cash replied : . . . I have with great reluctance come to the settled conclusion that you are the unmitigated scoundrel you have been represented...