Word: vulgars
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...with infinite restraint, is the terrific indictment against an indifferent generation. A girl's lover is killed-she feels no emotion; a country is in revolt, "the best people" pay no attention. Not that they do not love their Ireland: their patriotism flowers in smart patter about their vulgar cousins, the English-"they tell the most extraordinary things-about their, husbands, their money affairs, their insides. They don't seem discouraged by not being asked. And they all seem so intimate with each other ... of course they seem very definite and practical, but it is a pity they...
Opened importantly last week the spring and summer salons of many a great Parisian couturier. Since these are no vulgar "fashion shows" a discreet preview was permitted only to authentic amateurs and smartest clients. Soon the elect observed a series of Parisian points sure to mark the orbit of La Mode...
...transformed into a private debt, by selling German bonds in the world market and using the cash realized to pay off the state debt at once, leaving the new private debt to be paid off in the course of years. Thus a lofty obligation would be "commercialized" into a vulgar loan. The advantage to the Governments concerned would be that, if Germany should default, mere private citizens would be left holding...
...records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics of vulgar splendor and reckless abandon, recorded so readably in Jubilee...
Snobbery. Democrats insisted that, stronger than any distinction as to honesty or ability, the electorate made a social distinction between the nominees; that the President-reject was "whispered" about for his lack of polish, for his spitting on floors, rough voice, vulgar accent. Democrats were only infuriated when Republicans, admitting this charge, said...