Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sane humanity? How much of it was cheapened and perverted by the greed of men, the mechanical greed of money to make more money? My work was honest work. I never cared for money?never thought about it. You imply that my work helped to fill that vulgar adolescent heaven of yours. I deny it. At any rate, it's your heaven, not mine. I want none...
...shapes the same sort of entertainment to form musicomedies. The chief attraction of Flying High is a onetime vaudeville comedian named Bert Lahr whose eyes are close together and easily crossed, who emits apelike noises and resorts to other equally obvious antics. His most successful gag is a vulgar parody of a procedure common to all medical examinations. A great many people find him very funny. His function in the plot is to act as foil for a fat girl who wants to marry him. The fat girl, who looks as though she could barely waddle, does what fat girls...
...foolishment, and the spinning, leaping rhythms of Anton Dolin, a swarthy Englishman who once led the Diaghiliev Rus-sian ballet. Jimmy McHugh has written pleasant songs ("On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Exactly Like You") which are plugged by Harry Richman. But the revue is in general gaudy, vulgar, and provides little opportunity for the best efforts of its best talent...
Whimpering Tenors. In Moscow one-time Soviet Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky said, after listening to a pre-release of several new U. S. singing films: "They were spoiled for me by the vulgar, overfed faces of the tenors. . . . I could readily dispense with their tasteless mimicry, their coquettish rolling of eyes, their whimpering graces...