Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove that someone else wrote Shakespeare's plays, describing and mimicking that maid-of-all-work, Fielding's Shamela Andrews, or stepping into the role of Charles Lamb's lunatic sister, this jovial son of Maine injects humor, pathos, and human interest into lectures that have earned him the epithet, "a one-man vaudeville show...
Skirting the fundamental deficiencies which prevent the House Plan from fulfilling its design, the University's $6000 allocation to each House for permanent physical improvements nevertheless represents a concrete step toward conquering the epithet of "glorified dormitories." The stated purpose of the expenditure is to "improve the livability" of the Houses and make men residing in them feel that they belong to an institution of educational fellowship--with more to offer than room and board. While few harbor delusions about the extent to which a $42,000 outlay can revitalize the House Plan, this is at the same time...
...involving a Quaker widow and two clients of her boarding house: the famous, dashing Senator Burr of New York and a shot, clumsy congressman called James Madison. After spirited oratory, the relatively meek Madison inherits the landlady, later to become immortalized in song and story under the somewhat shady epithet of "Dolly...
...Veterans Committee faced in its Des Monies convention last summer and which threatens imminently in the ranks of the CIO: the issue of Communist domination. It is a question which on the one hand Congressman Rankin and others of his ilk have obscured by their irresponsible use of the epithet "Red" so as to render the word well-nigh meaningless, and on the other by the Communists in their unwillingness to declare themselves as such. By bringing up the question at an open meeting, the Liberal Union has done much to clear the surcharged atmosphere surrounding undergraduate political groups...
Dear friends, have you considered the consequence of your epithet? How can I explain it to my wife? "But dear, the Crimson called you dull." How can I explain it to my children? "Daddy, the Crimson called you dull." How can I explain it to my literary executors? "The painful fact is that, in spite of his eminence, the Harvard Crimson called him dull." And suppose I were not married: "Oh, sir. No, sir. The Crimson called you dull...