Word: innuendo
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...expressions of derision and despair. Groucho Marx makes friends with a gangster, throws a revolver into a pail of water. "It was necessary to drown the gat," he says, "but we saved a little gitten." Later he undertakes to discuss Love: "When love goes out the door money flies innuendo...
...desire for such a building, it is obvious, that only a small minority want it. If a war memorial is to be built there is no reason why it could not be something that is generally desirable and placed somewhere other than in the already crowded Yard. Before this innuendo suddenly springs into an unexpected and distasteful reality it certainly should be modified by the disapproving wishes of the large majority of Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates...
...CRIMSON is an attempt to give to the undergraduate body some idea of student feeling toward the courses offered in Harvard College. The faculty is amply represented in the catalogue and the various conferences with instructors that are provided. Unassisted, student feeling never becomes more than an uncertain innuendo that is never sufficiently obvious to be effective...
...champagne in which the bubbles go down instead of up, and ever so politely inquiring, "Did you ever feel as though you had a live trout inside you?" Most of the stories he tells are ridiculous, dipsomanianecdotes but one, which begins like the rest, has such sorrowful innuendo that you soon stop laughing...
...sustained, inexorable movement, its throbbing preoccupation with flesh and blood and nerves rather than the fanciful fabrics of intellect, it fulfills the prophecies that his most excited admirers have made about Ernest Hemingway. His mannered style, consciously bald, may still be annoying to some, but its pulsing innuendo cannot be denied...