Word: vulgars
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...what is the U.S.A. getting out of it? ... He would look for the catch rather than for the faith. I will tell you what the U.S.A. is putting into it . . . Marshall Aid to the end of 1950 has cost every crude, rude, grasping, vulgar, selfish, racketeering American fifteen shillings ($2.10) a week out of his back pocket...
...driveways, houses ranging in style from Jacobean to classical revival, a very private beach, old families not merely rich but entirely accustomed to it-this is the special world about which Ethan Ayer writes. His book is a portfolio of vignettes: the well-bred old snobs, the new, vulgar rich, the wealthy young weaklings and, behind all these, the pompous and romantic servants...
Nathan A. Haverstock '53, as the father, was outstanding for keeping his acting comprehensible and avoiding vulgar hamming. Paul T. Broneer '51 gave a reasonably smooth performance as the crafty slave...
...Travel. The final blow comes when he learns that solid old English Seaman Jenkins (as Novelists Shepard and Shepard tell it) was really a fraud who never lost an ear at all. Disillusioned, he turns his back on the English, the throne and "the contamination of power and vulgar success," and sets off on his travels again...
...because they are real knowledge, but as badges of class and status ... like needle point among Victorian women . . . Hence the careful student of Europe today discovers, with a horror . . . that the so-called culture of Europe does not go very deep. The American often leaves his campus still vulgar ... but we do have the opportunity ... of impressing upon him the glimmerings of a notion that learning is not something apart from life...