Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small One." To Italian democrats, King Vittorio Emanuele is still a rankling symbol of the Mussolini regime. Once il piccolo (the small one) was a sentimental nickname for the king. Now it is a bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...
...Articulate General Eisenhower does indeed talk with his shoulders. TIME's talk, as Father Coleman suggests, may occasionally reflect TIME's lifelong admiration of the Homeric epithet...
Jeannie (Tansa-English Films) entered the U.S. meekly by way of a Manhattan art theater, is still packing the place after nine weeks, drew the epithet "delightful" from leather-mouthed Walter Winchell, and has just been nationally released. With nothing more than their bare hands, a little intelligence, tenderness and characterization, the creators of Jeannie tackle a grey-haired comic cliché-The Innocent Abroad-and come up with the best light comedy of the year. Jeannie McLean, a sharp-chinned, homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander...
Nicolai Lenin, his good friend, described Molotov as "Russia's best filing clerk." The epithet was unfair. True, Molotov is colorless, pedantic, phenomenally hardworking. His mind likes order, method, efficiency, and all that passes through it is filed neatly in mental pigeonholes. But he is no dullard. A clear thinker, he keeps his feet on a solid foundation of history, philosophy and economics. Like most Soviet leaders, he quotes from Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Plekhanov-and Stalin-at the drop of a gavel...
Leon Trotsky, his bitter enemy, called him "a social climber." The epithet was untrue. Molotov is unassuming. He has had power for a quarter of a century. For half of this time, he has been Stalin's Man Friday, which is as high as a man can climb in Russia. Molotov has not let the power go to his head...