Word: epithet
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Several days later James C. Hall, president of the Master Guides of America, was crying up trade, as is his wont, on Washington's Pennsylvania Ave. before the White House. He spotted tourists' cars by their out-of-town licenses and hailed them with some appropriate local epithet. "Hey, Cracker!" he would call to Georgians. Tourists from Illinois were greeted with "Hey, Capone!'' and from North Carolina, "Hey, Tar Heel!" When Guide Hall saw a big car with a Mississippi tag rolling toward him, he sung out the state cry: "Hey, Bilbo...
...Between Liberal La Follette and Liberal Frank friction has been increasingly felt in Madison. The Governor's close friend and unofficial spokesman, Editor William Theodore Evjue of the Capital Times, has been openly flaying Dr. Frank. "The man who is afraid of his shadow," was one Evjue epithet. "Slip- pery and agile" were two Evjue adjectives...
...epithet is not completed in the talkie. On the stage...
...Mastick Hyde ran a thriving Buick agency in Trenton. Mo. before the War, his interest in farms and farmers had been nominal. Pitched into the Governor's chair at Jefferson City by the Republican sweep of 1920 he made Missouri's farmers roar with rage, earned the epithet of "tax-eater" by his expensive road building program. President Hoover picked him for the Cabinet chiefly because he had once been a "Lowden man" but had got a divorce from the equalization fee. Mockingly Secretary Hyde's archfoe, onetime Democratic Senator James Reed, used to greet him: "Howdy...
Ferocity. In all the vocabulary of politics, no epithet so enrages most politicians as calling them "demagogs." And in national politics, a statement issued by an Administration man on the steps of the White House is commonly construed as voicing the President's sentiments. Hence it was with a loose-worded ferocity seldom exhibited by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Senator Norris retorted to Mr. Wood by accusing President, Hoover of personally approving the "conspiracy." "Cowardly . . . underhanded . . . disreputable ..." were some of the epithets the ghosty Nebraskan spat out in the direction of the White House...