Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vulgar Criminal. Soon afterward, his leg irons resting comfortably against the grill of his cell, Meurant was enjoying a game of belote with two guards. Suddenly he whipped out the revolver. "One move," he said pleasantly, "and I'll burn you." While Meurant brandished his weapon, his cellmate, Murderer Michel Courtin, got the keys and unlocked the door. Meurant rounded up two more guards, locked them in the cell with the others, rummaged through the clothes locker for his good suit, and then calmly sat down to finish a letter. "I am escaping only to prove my innocence...
...manor, Chesterfield House, took three years in the building, the earl never properly had a home. At 38, his personal fortune depleted by staggering losses at cards, he advertised for a wife ("I want merit and I want money"). He got the money from a middle-aged and somewhat vulgar countess who brought him ?50,000 in dowry and ?3,000 in annual income. After the wedding, they were rarely seen together...
...should be tempted to quote some dictionary in denial of the above, sometimes even the editors of Webster's are misled by or yield to vulgar...
...print such a vulgar, ugly picture as Pieter Bruegel's "The Wedding Dance" in the Nov. 26 issue? It takes up much valuable space and its sensuality is far from ennobling. We need pictures that help strengthen our moral fibre...
...Vulgar?" "Whatever Is New for Women Is Wrong") and in the stockpile he had condensed in St. Paul; the rest he got from magazines in Manhattan's Public Library. When he visited editors to ask permission to reprint articles, Wallace was so shy that he sometimes took Lila along. Editors readily gave him permission to reprint especially as Wallace assured them that the Digest would carry no ads, would therefore be no competition that...