Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common derogatory Japanese epithet Keto (literally "hairy Chinese") is used for all foreigners, hairy or otherwise...
Nothing so grates on the ear of a sensitive Chinese as the epithet "Chinaman." Last week that word rang through the Supreme Court of the United States of Mexico as two swarthy Mexicans stoutly protested that in killing one of the Chinese people they had not committed murder...
...Utopian. In spite of the revelations about Mr. Sinclair's past beliefs, therefore, political observers last week were ready to concede him Los Angeles and the Southern part of the State, look to hard-headed San Francisco and the conservative north for Merriam strength. "Poor Relation." Prime epithet used against Upton Sinclair is that he is "an agent of Moscow." Fact is, Upton Sinclair is as American as pumpkin pie. His great-grandfather Arthur Sinclair was a naval officer who fought in the war with Tripoli. Seven other seagoing relatives joined the Confederate Navy. His maternal grandfather, John...
...believe you will agree that TIME erred in hurling the nasty epithet "scabs" at these boys, American citizens from American farms, especially as they were "eager to earn an honest penny" rather than live on charity, more especially as they, ''at the risk of a broken pate," watered and fed these suffering cattle and drove them under "protection from the blazing sun," and most especially since less than 10% of our citizens belong to any A. F. of L. union, the 90% being outcasts, '"scabs" in the eyes of these union leaders, the same as the men who undertook...
...more of the language they heard many a bloodthirsty threat. Aside from cramped quarters, boredom, vermin, bad food, the hardest thing they had to endure was hair-pulling, nose-and- ear-tweaking. The bandits delighted in calling them names. When asked what was the English for an obscene Chinese epithet, Author Johnson replied: "Parlez vous français?" "They were delighted and they spend their time saying Parlez vous français to us. Sometimes when they are very annoyed, they say it to one another...