Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Dodgers, which MacPhail denied), got a friendly welcome at the airport from Cinemactress Laraine Day, who i) bussed him fondly, 2) announced to the panting press that they were just friends. Promptly another old friend, Powers Model Edna Ryan, now a little confused, rose and pinned a label on him: the Artful Dodger...
...National Panning Committee which won the chapter's approval by the 74-58 tally, asserts that "we are unhappily aware that we shall be accused from some quarters of having joined forces with those distasteful spokesmen of the right who have loosely and maliciously applied the label 'communist' to many commendable organizations. We wish emphatically to dissociate ourselves from the red-baiting tactics of the henchmen of reaction, but we cannot lot their bad example dissuade us from our determination to make known our stand...
...facts: the failure of the P.A.C. and big-city machines; labor's refusal to buy the exclusively Democratic brand of politics, the anger of meatless housewives. To some extent, at least, Republicans had been able to make parts of the Democratic line suspect by slapping on the Red label...
...threatening Quaker mysticism.† At the Yearly Meeting of 1827, differences were too deep even for Friendly reconciliation: country Quakers withdrew to form a separate meeting. Though they never formally accepted the teachings or leadership of Elias Hicks, the seceders were known as "Hicksites" for want of a better label...
...success as head of the government he remained an educator first and always. One of his initial moves was the inauguration of a night-school for legislators "to save the English language from humiliation" which action caused the senior senator from Mississippi to exclaim, "Well, shet man mouf!" and label the President "a razorback...