Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole, the supplementary services are functionally related to the schools in which they exist, and so, on the whole, they should not be granted to private and parochial schools. But this is a delicate point of law and far removed from the name calling that has been going on in the newspapers...
...Anybody in Boston can get a season football ticket for the name price as a Harvard students," commented Stern. He then suggested that the game admission price might be raised for outsiders and alumni so that undergraduates might obtain tickets more cheaply...
...colony Distributors is the name of the Boston firm which is promoting the seat rental notion. They offer different models; one designed for the concrete seats and one designed for the steel seats...
...Chattanooga Times and the Richmond Times Dispatch, many Southern newspapers still follow a "double standard" in news. Says Race in the News: "Negroes . . . are almost always identified by race; whites . . . are not . . . Hardly ever does 'Mr.,' 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' precede the name of a Negro in the regular news columns . . . To refer to the widow of a lynched Negro as 'the Mallard woman' . . . is to deny her even the elemental dignity of grief . . . The Negro [in stories and pictures] is either presented as a menace, or he is ridiculed, patronized or applauded...
Quest Within Quest. A Spanish squire named Alonso Quijana, "tall, lean, lanky, with cheeks that appeared to be kissing each other on the inside of his mouth, [and a] neck half a yard long and uncommonly brown," goes clear out of his mind from reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said...