Vulgar words in Europe After 8:15 (Page 1)
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If nobody comes into your compartment it's lonesome, and if anybody _does_ come in it's too damn sociable.
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"... badly as usual ... rotten ... slump ... shake up...." "... John McGraw ... Connie Mack ... glass arm...." "... homesick ... give five dollars for...." "... whole continent without a single baseball cl...." "... glad to get back ... damn tired...." "... damn...." "... _damn_...." VIENNA [Illustration: VIENNA] VIENNA The casual Sunday School superintendent, bursting with visions of luxurious gaieties, his brain incited by references to _Wiener blut_, his corpuscles tripping to the strains of some Viennese _schlagermusik_, will suffer only disappointment as he sallies forth on his first night in Vienna.
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He expected to find a city which would be one roseate and romantic revel, given over to joys of the flesh, to wine-drinking and confetti-throwing, overrun with hussies, gone mad with lascivious waltzes, reeking with Babylonish amours.
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And so, too, in that loud, crass annex of Broadway, the Café de Paris--and in the Moulin Rouge, which died forever from the earth a dozen years ago when the architect Niermans seduced the place with the "art nouveau"--and amid the squalid hussies of the fake Tabarin--and in the Rue Royale, at Maxim's, with its Tzigane orchestra composed of German gipsies and its toy balloons made by the Elite Novelty Co. of Jersey City, U.S.A.
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Leave behind you Paillard's, vainglorious in its bastard salades Danicheff, its soufflés Javanaise; leave the blatant Boulevard des Italiens for the timid _bistrop_ of Monsieur Delmas in the scrawny Rue Huygens, with its _soupe aux legumes_ at twenty centimes the bowl, its _cotelette de veau_ at fifty the plate.