Word: vulgars
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...Mackay (president of Postal Telegraph Co.); of heart disease in Roslyn, L. I., N. W. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the daughter of Civil and Mexican war veteran Col. Daniel C. Hungerford and his onetime Parisian wife, it was she who in the early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant miner. They were married. The famed Comstock Lode, in the opening of which he was an entrepreneur, yielded...
...said in Dublin, Ireland: "The British humorous weekly Punch presents distorted, snobbish, and inaccurate pictures of American life and manners in its cartoons. . . . Wars tend to be provoked by such fostering of ignorant prejudices. . . . Much of the American slang distorted by Punch is vigorous and expressive instead of vulgar...
...affair reacted upon the Laurentano family in intricate fashion. The prince's vulgar bride eloped with the widower of the murdered lady-friend. Lando barely escaped the island where he had abetted the riots. Sicily was put under martial law, and the old Garibaldino Mauro, frenzied by the impertinence of upstart socialists, fared forth with his medals and pistols of 1860 to assist the state troopers. These unimaginative souls mistook him for a rioter, and shot him in a street fight...
...first week, practically no notice was taken of the proceedings. It was regarded as uninteresting, futile, vulgar. On the tenth day the New York Evening Graphic published "doctored" photographs of contestants, showing faces that were thinned and blackened with exhaustion, suggesting that the dance marathon was not only silly but cruel. At this, a vast throng of persons rushed to Madison Square Garden and bought their way in. The marathon which had hitherto been a financial failure bloomed into success. The dancers, whose ranks were by this time greatly reduced, became famous and excited; they whirled and shuffled happily, receiving...
...habit of quiet, unobtrusive, self-regulated conduct, not accepted from others or influenced by the vulgar breath...