Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent the origin of the term "racket," I quote verbatim from Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London, 1823), a definition which antedates the origin described by you (TIME...
...realism, paints with a broad brush. It's an old western custom to give a chivivari to an engaged couple. In accordance with tradition Miss Walker, in a night gown, together with her betrothed, is placed upon a haystack to endure with the audience ten minutes of as vulgar wise-cracking as Boston has ever heard. It is not funny or even cleverly risque; it is just downright smutty...
Pressing Business. This is a Jewish-Irish show with the scene laid in a dry-cleaning establishment owned by two Hebrews. The people address each other in loud low-comedy style. They spray cleaning fluid at one another, punctuate much of their conversation with a vulgar oral noise known variously as "the bird," "the Bronx cheer," "the Chinese kiss...
...between prurient prudishness and primitive purity. Yvette is the younger of two daughters of an English parson. Her mother had run away with another man, is no longer mentioned. Yvette's grandmother has taken her daughter-in-law's place in the household. "She was one of those physically vulgar, clever old bodies who had got her own way all her life by buttering the weaknesses of her men-folk." Yvette hates her grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens on a gypsy camp, meets a gypsy...
...today's is a far cry from the National Police Gazette which, some 80 years ago, announced: "We offer this week a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions . . . in various parts of the country." The story of that lusty childhood, and the glorious heyday that was to follow during the "gaslitera" is told by Edward Van Every in his book Sins of New York-As "Exposed" by The Police Gazette (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) which appeared last fortnight. Few-even of those who remember the Gazette in every barber...