Word: slur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a South Carolinian promptly rose to denounce and deny a baseless slur not only on Edward F. Hutton (who in addition to his shooting preserve, maintains a large duck sanctuary) but also on the hospitality of his State. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce investigated the charge, found not even a rumor to support...
...could have resolved the matter so promptly as did this inquisitive sexagenarian baronet, barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician. Sir Richard's musical ear told him that the tune he heard that evening was in E major, with A sharp substituted for A flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed by sharply defined steps from note to note. The melody included runs, slow trills, turns and grace notes and sounded so artificial that I felt bound to open the window and make sure that the tune...
This gratuitous slur, I take it, is not due to malice but to ignorance of newspaper conditions in Brooklyn. For your enlightenment, therefore, I beg to acquaint you with certain particulars...
...East Philosopher was not moved by the altruistic impulses hitherto ascribed, but was avoiding another dud on the Holy Cross game (Dr. Huey picked Harvard to win easily last year) and, furthermore, didn't know a polo mallet from a wicker-basket. He concluded his remarks with the slur that the prophet had been out of practice, insofar as the sons of Nassau were concerned, for the past five years, and didn't know they even had a polo team...
...speaking for myself, I accept the challenge of the gentleman from the other end of the Capitol. Let us have it out. I do not propose, as a member of this body, to surrender upon that principle. I do not propose to accept the implication and the slur. We will either feed these people, or we will stay here and tell the American people why we do not feed them...