Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Student reports and criticisms of college conditions are spreading with a rapidity which, might give the meditative cynics an opportunity for the sneering epithet, fad. Were it not for the respectful attention faculties give these undergraduate analyses, they should deserve the appellation in some measure. But the fact that educational authorities in many cases accept the suggestions raises the reports from the sphere of fads to a more practical domain...
...What British statesman has won himself the epithet "lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies?" (See COMMONWEALTH...
...further corridor talk some stated that Mr. Rankin had flung at Mr. Mills an unprintable epithet. Others averred that he had not done so, but had merely started to. Mr. Rankin settled the question: "I would never call any white man by that name...
Despite occasional lapses into quiescence, the species juvenilia continues to justify its Wordsworthian epithet of "mighty prophets, seer blest". Vibrations of exotic metre have scarcely died away in a certain quarter of Brooklyn when the evangelical eloquence of twelve year old Uldine Utley presages a great western spiritual movement. For Uldine, according to her biographer in the American Magazine, is the California child that has moved ten thousand men to lead better lives...
...Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...