Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the U.S. system of competition among broadcasters "is preventing you from getting full value out of your key men." Recommending Britain's rigidly uncommercial programs, he added: "I submit that there is a risk of educational ballyhoo as well as of commercial ballyhoo. It is not so vulgar; it is less aggressive, different in form, quite different in motive; but is it not more or less the same fundamentally-an assertion that this labeled brand of soap is the only soap? It has been discovered that this is not the way to sell goods to a radio audience...
...know that many Englishmen sneer at the North American idea of publicity and describe their methods of boosting as vulgar. . . . I am sorry to say that we are sadly behind the times in the field of advertising...
...country cousin she was, but Joyce preferred them to the Leydeners. That was in 1908, when the question of woman's suffrage in England had already begun to burn. The Cornvelts were for it, but in a nice way; nobody had more contempt than they for the vulgar and outrageous behavior of the militant Suffragettes. Imagine their horror when they heard that Joyce had become one, and had been arrested for making an irruption into the sacred House of Commons. They tried to send her back to Leyden. She ran away. They washed their hands...
...easily do much to defeat it. To sing the praises of one's university in such glaring terms as are here used, no matter how merited these terms may be arouses among those outside the gates the natural, abhorrence for conceit. To the outside world Harvard appears as a vulgar boaster. No matter how self-sufficient Harvard men may feel no one can tell when the opinion of the public may mean a great deal. Such a power should not be antagonized by an attempt to impress the alumni with the great work of the institution through which they have...
...round of their fight for the Republican nomination to be Mayor of Chicago. The primary election was to be held Feb. 24, their battleground was the Loop, their prize the honor of being the city's First Citizen during the Century of Progress (1933). Their hooligan antics, their vulgar language blanketed other reasonable is sues, obscured other candidates...