Word: vulgars
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...Archbishop Gushing of Boston blames the women for the "coarse and vulgar" modern world [TIME, May 14] ? So did Adam: "The woman Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree...
...Quinn's formula: put into Fibber's loud mouth all the bromidic complaints of disgruntled civilians-and then point out the vulgar errors of Fibber's thinking. When OWI wanted to hit unnecessary travel, Quinn had Fibber attempt a 250-mile train trip, fail to get either a reservation or any sympathy ("If you insist on being bullheaded, why don't you take a cattle car!"), and finally admit that "the railroads have bitten off about as much as they can choo-choo...
...celebration this week was to be a performance (but in English) of Aristophanes' Clouds. Students dressed as roosters would stand behind bars and expound the theme of education-for-its-own sake: "The greatest of all blessings is to live and think more clearly than the vulgar herd...
...modern world can be characterized as coarse and vulgar . . . then our womenfolk are mainly responsible. Let it not be charged that men are responsible, for in this manner they take their cue from the women. When women are ladies, men are gentlemen. When women have no just regard for their own sacred character, men have none...
Hearst is making money again. The greatest vegetable growth in publishing history-which William Randolph Hearst watered with his father's fortune, wrapped in his country's flag and dunged with an unerring taste for the lowest vulgar denominator-is once more full of sap, and blossoming with green and glossy banknotes. Soon the "Hearst empire" expects to be out of hock. From Maine to California last week came the evidence...