Word: epithet
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...Palmolive Garbo" was David Selznick's epithet for his new property. The hard-veined, soft-souled gentlemen of the press felt differently. There was something about Miss Bergman-they clawed the air for adequate words-which made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart...
What Are Her Assets? As with the press and Hollywood, so also with the nation. But not even David Selznick's Palmolive epithet, though it is first-rate poetry, affords an analysis of Miss Bergman's peculiar assets. There has been no such analysis. Yet in some degree her assets can be listed...
...APPRECIATE GREATLY THAT NOT ONCE WAS THE WORD OBSCENE MENTIONED IN YOUR ARTICLE. EPITHET TOO EASILY USED WHICH ASSAILED UNANIMOUSLY THE APPEARANCE OF "INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS" BY FREUD, PSYCHOLOGIC DOCUMENT WHICH IS AND ALWAYS WILL REMAIN IN SPITE OF ALL THE MOST IMPORTANT AND SENSATIONAL OF OUR EPOCH...
Twerpitude. In Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Thomas Evans and Peter Heary were fined ?5 & ?3 for applying to Supreme Court Justice Walter Thrash "a British epithet, untranslatable, but unmistakably offensive." The epithet: "twerp...
Hastily, Tunesmith Berlin wired his Manhattan publishers to change "d-y" to "Negroes" in all future copies of the song. Said he: "No song is important enough to offend a whole race. I should never have released it had I known the epithet was objectionable...