Word: vulgars
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Eager newsmen pressed about the prison for detailed news of Convict Sinclair's daily doings. An order was issued barring them from the jail. Washington newspapers became indignant. In the U. S. Senate, Alabama's ever-loud Heflin denounced "this truckling to a vulgar millionaire." The Sinclair privacy became an editorial issue. The order was rescinded, the Press re-entered the jail...
...shrewd and rather cruel story of an American spinster whose corpse, lying in the Paris Ritz, is robbed by her fake-duchess friend and guarded by her lifelong enemy, "the cat that lived at the Ritz." The final tale, "The Apothecary," is a grim parable of the vulgar and aging rich who gather around them impoverished Parisians with cheap titles and cheaper morals. In a "quaint" apartment over an apothecary's shop in the Faubourg St. Germain, a noisy female parasite gives a dinner to consolidate her waning position. To jaded guests she offers, as entertainment and prey...
...that Memorial would not be available for holding the divisional examinations next week. Good old New England reserve and modesty which objects to boasting about the most hospitable acts is not to be blamed for reticence in a case like this. Generosity loses half its fine flavor if a vulgar display is made of it as soon as opportunity is given...
...withstanding all this and the scornful claim of the cognoscenti that after all the Pops are not cultural but pander to the vulgar taste for the simple and obvious, the Vagabond will attend them, and will be seen almost any night, armed with the proper sustenance and a cigar, listening to the music and wishing that the beer were real and that he were sitting under the cool and fragrant shade of the linden trees in--But that is pure nostalgia...
...soul amidst the pottage. The France lectures also summarize succinctly the complicated maze of Rabelais' writing with inclusion of quips and incidents that are among the most amusing and the least vulgar. The neatest summary and the most judicious excerpts could give no conception of the texture of Rabelais' wit ; but they point to a profitable perusal of the 1.021 close-packed pages that comprise the works of the original Rabelaisian, now available in one volume...