Word: vulgars
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...cheerful, philosophy is always breaking in, and no sooner does philosophy take its ease than show business bangs loudly on the door. For all Shirley Yamaguchi's sweet reedy singing, and the libretto's thoughtful and pretty words, Utopia seems freshened up by a touch of vulgar Broadway speed or a bit of Harold Langri-la. Lang and Joan
...atrocious intellectual engaged in writing a great poem. His mother washes his hair for him, while he dreams of himself as Messire Bernardus Riccio, a Machiavellian figure. The landlady's brother, James Patrick Madden, is back from New York and thought to be rich; although a vulgar sort, Madden is Judith's last hope for a husband. The parish priest is a hard, harsh, unimaginative zealot called Father Quigley. Like all such spinsters, Miss Hearne has rich and happy friends-Professor Owen O'Neill and his family, but these, too, fail her because she comes to understand...
...Jethro; RCA Victor). The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie. "My room it was so small,'' one of them croaks, that "evertime I tried to smile my teeth would touch the wall." No more vulgar than the prototype...
...wonder how many letters you have received from those of Irish descent regarding Randolph Churchill's comment on the "vulgar Kellys"? Such remarks make it almost impossible to understand or believe in the publicized advantages of British diplomacy and rule in the few dominions and colonies Britain still governs...
...little French restaurants, where the soup tastes "like a prism," and she was always happy to tell him what Whistler had said to Oscar Wilde. She teased his tastes ("Does it want wose-colored silk shades on the . . . wamps?"), and she caught him up briskly when he lapsed into vulgar speech...