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...Interstate Commerce Commission? And John James Tigert himself, U. S. Commissioner of Education? These and many another Rhodes Scholar are as well known as able President Aydelotte, or should be. Rhodes Scholars have distinguished themselves right and left?unless "running the country" be taken to mean the somewhat vulgar occupation of politics...
...revue at all. It is less clever, more loud, bawdy, vulgar and-to people who like that sort of thing-vastly more entertaining than a Times Square revue could ever be, for the revue is not native while the night club is- even in a theatre. It has the perfection of a weed that grows unashamedly where Nature intended. It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which...
Alicia Patterson, 20-year-old daughter of Publisher-Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the loud Chicago Tribune, louder New York Daily News and vulgar Liberty (weekly)*, is thought to favor her father. Her older sister, Elinor, took to the high art of drama when Producer Morris Gest found that she was ideal for the nun in his U. S. Miracle (TIME, Feb. 15, 1925). But journalism is good enough for Alicia Patterson. Some three months ago she undertook to gather pearls for the Daily News to cast before its million-odd readers...
...glaring errors and stupidities. For example, he alludes to TIME as being "typically American, quaintly ungrammatical." It is obvious that he knows nothing of Amer. or of the study of language, for the English grammar used in this country is far more nearly accurate, and infinitely less crude and vulgar, than that used by the corresponding classes in England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest and "toughest" holiday crowd at Coney Island uses better speech, and far better manners, than...
...polite society it is considered vulgar for one to make a display of his wealth or education. In the practical affairs of life, when a man uses an odd or unusual word to convey a meaning that could have been as easily and as quickly conveyed by a more common word, he is held in contempt by his associates. You seem to go to great length to make a display of your vocabulary. You have had a penchant for using unusual words since your publication started, and I had occasion to write to you in a similar vein...