Word: vulgars
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...Vulgar methods...
...first Englishmen to recognize the value of advertising and the praise of Beecham's Pills was sung in thousands of newspapers, thousands of magazines, on thousands of car-cards and posters throughout the world in numerous languages. His methods were often called vulgar and probably his most famed advertisement...
...violently did the vulgar clasp him to its unclean bosom that the cultured upper classes reacted to any mention of his name as they would to a bathroom joke?they saw the point, but would not be caught laughing at it. This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some...
...fashionables noted the 22nd day of faultless weather, noted also an unusually large number of straw hats which had hitherto been regarded as an "indication of vulgar habits of life...
Artists and Models is of the latter type. Its aim is to inculcate the conviction that the human body, devoid of clothes, is an obscenity. Photographs of models in postures whose suggestiveness is made possible only by their awkwardness are varied with reproductions of famed paintings that the vulgar can be relied upon to misinterpret. Interspersed are brief sketches in prose under such engaging captions as One Night in a Harem, To the Pure All Things Are Pure...