Word: epithets
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...hearty epithet frequently on the lips of the late King George V in private- although always eschewed by the English in public-was "bloody," and this Ambassador Kennedy has now adopted at London into his pungent speech. Last week, just before going down with Mrs. Kennedy to Windsor Castle, the Ambassador called in correspondents, exploded vehemently against the presentation at Court of socialite U. S. women. Cried he: "I believe this policy is undemocratic and un-American...
...both undignified and vulgar." The word vulgar constitutes a grave injury to Miss Fields, her friends and public in England, where she is greatly beloved as your article states. I am a great admirer of TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager in England and as the producer of her pictures I appeal to your sense of fairness to right the harm done her in this matter...
...article this morning on History and Literature, Mr. Elliot Perkins was described as "lazy". This seems to be a case of a transferred epithet; the term would apply rather to his tutees. No fiend for activity, Mr. Perkins nevertheless is energetic, alert, and a stimulating tutor. Sincerely Yours Tucker Dean...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt again described the State of the Union to Congress, but in entirely different terms. Not one opprobrious epithet did he hurl, not one ringing denunciation. His words were of reason and goodwill, his attitude of sweetness and light. This year's message might fitly have been described as the closing gun of the campaign...
Lump is no violent epithet. In meaning it ranges from rag or garbage to rascal, mucker or good-for-nothing. Many a good Nazi has privately called Herr Streicher far worse. But the corollary of Streicher's philosophy that "A Jew is always a Jew," is "A German is always a German, even if he lives at the North Pole...