Word: innuendo
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...book form they are not quite so funny. Artist Peter Arno created them with so few strokes of his charcoal and such a rare vein of middle-aged-female innuendo, that their gusto seems stifled when, located in a charity home, with a zither player, a retired fireman, an orphan oaf called Fester, a man with an elephant, and a Park Avenue dowager for companions, they become heroines of a story of which the dizziness does not compensate for the length. The upshot of the story is that Mrs. Flusser inherits $20,000,000 and the old gals pack...
There was doubtless no subtle innuendo in this statement by the Times, whose motto is "All the news that's fit to print," although the motto of the Times's rival, the New York Herald Tribune, is "Complete news plus the best features." Generous, imperturbable, the Times can well afford to be. Despite much thunderous prophecy, the Herald Tribune's latest milestone, announced as passed last week, is only 300,000. Though 100,000 people represent only about 1% of the potential newspaper market in Manhattan and vicinity, 100,000 bona fide readers represent a very considerable...
Apropos of this paragraph: I read it to my wife (we are Jewish) who recently was thrown by an automobile on our principal thorofare, and who, contrary to your innuendo, made no fuss when she discovered that she had no injuries beyond a few bruises; that, even though the motorist was traveling along entirely beyond a reasonable rate of speed. Just yesterday she related her experience to a neighbor, who embraces the Christian faith, and this neighbor asked her hastily and excitedly, "Did you get anything"? and added, "I would not have let him get away with...
...realize that your Christian Christ had a "loop in his nose," and for the same reason that I have one in mine? Your innuendo is powerless to affect the pride of a Jew in the symbol of his race...
...severance of all athletic relationships between Harvard and Princeton, although accompanied during the past two weeks with many a bitter innuendo, may well mark a useful milestone in the progress of football, the game which caused all the trouble. For at the bottom of the break lie two important principles, new in the athletic management of universities, which the Harvard authorities had courage enough to advance and stand firm on. The first is the shortening of the football schedule: the second, abolition of a series of practically fixed games, each one of which was turning year by year into more...