Word: epithets
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...earn this week the thanks of both Wets and Drys by saying the W. C. T. U. has a "crafty old head" in Mrs. Ella A. Boole (TIME, July 18). You have furnished the Wets another opprobrious and abusive epithet for women, of whom you mention three, whose title to honor and respect no Wet seems able to understand...
...TIME (Letters, June 20) Mr. Albert Hilliard of Nevada questions the reference to my husband as "banjo-eyed Norman Klein" in your issue of May 23, wonders if the epithet angers Mr. Klein as it does Moon Mullins...
...close one of the most farcical games of baseball ever witnessed on Soldiers Field when umpire Barry called a halt at the end of the eighth inning yesterday while Harvard was leading Boston University by the absurd margin of 26 runs. The final score was 29-3. The epithet of "track-meet" could hardly be applied more appropriately than to yesterday's debacle when the Crimson batters pounded out a total of 27 hits assisted by eight errors on the part of the visiting nine...
...Gallic wit took pleasure in causing discomfiture to over serious and self-important pacifists. Yet it is also a sign of the overbearing attitude which most nations adopt when they find themselves in a position of supremacy. Kipling wrote his "Recessional" to moderate this spirit. The Germans earned the epithet of "Huns" by crudely and needlessly antagonizing civilized society when they were in the ascendancy. The French would do well to see that they do not lose the sanity and balance which have won for them world leadership...
...devolves upon the college men, who really should know better, to be less prodigal with their superlatives and more precise in their epithet. It behooves them, unless their exuberant natures rebel, to cultivate the love of understatement which characterizes the Latin "grand style." These measures may save the verbal coinage of America from becoming hopelessly debased...