Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square feet of wall surface in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City. Also full of salty realism was his autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when the question of renewing Benton's teaching contract came...
ARCHITECTS OF IDEAS - Ernest R. Trattner - Carrick & Evans ($3.75). Beginning with Copernicus and ending with Einstein this book gives lucid explanations of what 15 scientific theoreticians have done for Science. Of more interest than Author Trattner's biographies are his accounts of vulgar errors, wrong theories and bad guesses for which scholars and scientists fought tooth & nail...
...obtained a great range of answers, including: "courage, generosity, modesty, education, an interesting vocabulary, personal cleanliness, clever gambling, the ability to 'con' (fool) officials, a reputation for holding liquor, possession of money ... a large body of knowledge about a particular technique of crime, a fund of vulgar jokes or songs, the possession of attitudes against the judiciary, the prison administration, the parole board and God, demonstrable sophistication in female companionship as evidenced by suggestive letters, the dignity and poise that come to some men after long years of prison life, participation in a spectacular crime, riot or escape...
...surprised that Mr. Monty Banks of Hollywood should take TIME to task for mentioning in an otherwise complimentary article about the British music hall performer, Gracie Fields, recently decorated by King George VI, that on the stage she is, of course, "vulgar...
...amused to see the way their writers used the TIME article as a peg on which to hang columns and columns about "Our Gracie." In the London Daily Express a four column analysis by James Agate is headed "IS GRACIE FIELDS COMMON?" The concluding words are, "She is common, vulgar, and low. Bless...