Word: slur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Letters Department contained a protest from rich Reformer Roger Baldwin (then as now director of the American Civil Liberties Union), who advocated the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy; and an explanation from the Editors that by correcting a mistake Calvin Coolidge made about a baseball game, no slur was intended on the Chief Executive...
...reason for how it all came to pass. Nearest he could come was that two months ago he was "completely irritated with Hollywood" after seeing a number of pictures he did not like. It was then he drew the unfortunate sketches, and he said he thought he inserted the slur against Jews subconsciously. Further, Mr. Beaton explained ". . . Silly as it may sound, I had not been aware that I was writing words. ... I liked the sound of 'Kike' . . . but I had no idea that it was confined to a definite racial group, and I certainly had no conception...
Last straw is SECommission. This backward moppet, 39, reads first SECcommission. goes back and reads SEEcommission or secOMission; by then, remembers-until next week's issue-that in last week's issue, he finally managed to slur it into SEHcommission; by then, also realizes that he doesn't really give two hoots in Hell what the SEC Commission does and skips the page...
...beautiful, blonde, black-eyed married woman (daughter of the Earl of Essex), contemporaries were satisfied that Sir Philip Sidney's love-making remained a strictly literary affair. The single criticism ever to touch his reputation on that score came from Queen Elizabeth, who, always furious at the slur to her own magnetism whenever her young men married, acted when "my Philip" married as though he had gone the limit in Elizabethan sensuality...
...everybody knows about Curley, and yet I'm afraid he's going to be elected Mayor of Boston next fall." Seated in the back of the room was first-year Law Student Leo Francis Curley, who after class approached Professor Seavey, received an immediate apology for the slur. Announced Massachusetts' onetime Democratic Governor and Senator-reject next day: "I've advised my son to resign...