• And was it really that same head, battered and worm-eaten, with an iron spike still rammed through the skull, that became a souvenir, a vulgar curiosity, a treasured relic and was finally in 1960 secretly laid to rest in the chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where the young Cromwell briefly studied?

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  • In fact, it's usually regarded as a vulgar display of wealth and a disregard for the culture.

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  • Even toffs were innocent, little dreaming how a vulgar commercial world would create a new elite to supplant them stocky, energetic men who earned their fortunes and bought their furniture.

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  • There was a vulgar streak in Tiny Rowland that upset other charming and ruthless tycoons who feared that he was giving money-making a bad name.

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  • Ms. JAMES: Yeah, well, you know, during those days you weren't allowed to say roll, because roll was like a vulgar word.

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  • Even in the midst of The Onion tweeting a vulgar term during the Academy Awards about 9-year-old best actress nominee Quvenzhane Wallis, there was still time to bash Hathaway.

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  • Contraction is no longer a vulgar economic word.

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  • But it is as well to keep in mind that many intellectuals in the West still consider capitalism to be immoral: too devoted to a vulgar worship of money, too dependent on greed, too deeply founded on adversarial individualism.

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  • "It would have to be a fairly vulgar company that would step in at this point, " he said.

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  • But, as usual in America, the squalid turn toward vulgar prosperity was also a sane turn toward social peace.

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  • If anything, his decision to re-tweet a series of vulgar comments rallied fans to his defense.

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  • Jarmusch lacks for nothing in his deadpan pastiche of spy thrillers, but some viewers may experience a residual, vulgar longing for the real thing.

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  • He was known for being as fiery as they come, a coach not below vulgar tirades and endless condescension, even toward his own players, if that got the job done.

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  • Even those who feel that Hugh Wheeler's slightly vulgar book coarsens "Smiles of a Summer Night, " the Ingmar Bergman film on which the show is based, will likely come away thinking that all you need do to purge the show of its occasional verbal excesses is to perform it with the subtlety that is the hallmark of this production.

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  • Brithenig is an answer to the question of what English might have sounded like as a Romance language, if vulgar Latin had taken root on the British Isles.

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  • When it overcame its excitement at being granted an interview with the founder, the programme offered a few choice insights into how Facebook is still miles away from solving the puzzle of how to generate substantial advertising income without enraging punters who thought they were signing up for a cuddly website free of vulgar commercial messages.

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  • RAC's vulgar squabbles are bound to be accompanied by a dash of envy that its members now seem about to vote themselves a large wad of money.

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  • Sometimes, he need not bother with opening his mouth or picking up his pen: When confronted by a reporter outside a Boston church in 2006, Scalia used a certain Italian hand gesture some call vulgar.

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  • Silicon Valley does not care for comparisons with vulgar Tinseltown, and it is true that technology is a much faster-changing product than entertainment.

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  • Eddie Murphy mocks every stereotype in the book and invents a few of his own in this raucous, vulgar comic extravaganza.

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  • In "The Age of Innocence, " Edith Wharton wrote of turn-of-the-century American society belles stowing away their fresh-from-Paris dresses for at least a season or two, so as to not appear vulgar in New York society.

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  • Matilda (the part is played by a rotating cast) lives with her greedy, scheming, vulgar parents, Mr. and Mrs.

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  • Rarely has calculated stupidity made as much sense as in this vulgar, cartoonish rock opera, starring Jack Black and Kyle Gass as a pair of metal-worshipping musical losers in quest of stardom, redemption, and the rent money.

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  • Si, en ocasiones se escucha un castellano vulgar por las calles de cualquier ciudad, pero es lo que nos une a los mismos mexicanos.

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  • The word sommelier (pronounced some-el-YAY) is derived from the Vulgar Latin word for "beast of burden, " which may seem at odds with the image of a well-dressed man (or woman) proffering a wine list to a table of guests.

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