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Amygdaline means almondlike, "for almond appears to be derived from the Greek amygdal. . . The word would fitly decorate one of those ladies who must have their hair in the hue of a blanched almond. Amygdaline blondes are many, and the epithet would give them more dignity than they usually possess...
...regard to the statement that Miss Thayer's maid now answers the phone, "Colonel Thayer's residence," the only epithet I can think of that is fit to print is "Great Balls of Fire...
...funny that the bridge was never really called by its right name. Larz Anderson '88 gave the bridge as a memorial to his father, Nicholas Longworth Anderson '58, but as the years passed the full epithet gave way first to "Anderson" and then to "Larz Anderson...
Lessons Learned. The refugees fled in fear of being caught between the opposing armies, in fear of Red reprisals (many had been openly anti-Communist during the brief weeks of U.N. victory), above all in fear of their ancient enemies, the Chinese, for whom they had revived their old epithet oranke (savages). Many who had stayed when the Reds invaded South
...been pictured on the screen frequently enough to have lost some of their novelty. Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and co-Scripter Lesser Samuels make up for that with sensational incidents (e.g., a woman spits in the Negro doctor's face) and dialogue strewn with virtually every known epithet for Negroes. They draw the line at showing much of the race riot-in which the Negroes ambush and demolish the mob that plans to attack them-but the detailed scenes leading up to it are charged with venom...