Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plumage was vivid and vulgar-a sport shirt with a palm-leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster...
...matter of fact, the script is rather too strongly inclined to see the best in people and events. The war clouds are dark indeed, but somehow they usually turn out to have a silver lining. And toward the end the whole film goes gargling noisily down the vulgar drain of propaganda...
...hard-riding George Christopher was not about to hang up his hardware. After the fact-finding committee gave Goodie the nod, Christopher unleashed his pistols, accused Knight supporters of circulating literature of "such a low grade" as to be "vulgar and wholly un-American." It was, he said, a case of "bigotry" and "insipid intolerance." The literature included a pamphlet entitled "The ODDyssey of George Christopher," and somehow Christopher took it to be a slur on his Greek ancestry. What it did do was trace Christopher's switches in party registration-from Republican to Progressive to Democratic to Republican...
Saddlesore Cowboy-Minstrel Gene Autrey and his music publishers collected $250 in damages from a Houston nightclub, whose comic was forbidden henceforth to drawl a vulgar tune titled 01' Gene Artery, a parody of 01' Gene's own theme that also slightingly mentioned his favorite hoss, Champion...
...darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference--to keep to the more general term--is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world... It is also true that, we have some acquaintance with that life of polished dissipation and fruitless travel which we are pleased to call "the world," our estimate of the real world, as we argue from a part to the whole...