Word: slur
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...intend that the moral slur cast in the direction of Fascismo by the Aventine deputies shall be discussed immediately. Since our present session has been dedicated to a memorial service to Queen Margherita, I move that a special sitting to discuss the Aventine situation be convoked tomorrow...
Readers of the New York Daily News were intrigued last Saturday morning by a headline. Those who were able to spell out the glaring slur read it aloud to their friends and chuckled; it was a good line, the sort of thing that makes the News their favorite newspaper. They bent to scrutinize the photograph that was printed below- a picture of the funeral of the Queen Mother, Alexandra. There were King George and the Prince of Wales stalking with solemn strides; there were King Christian of Denmark in a plumed hat, the King of Norway and the King...
Lord Leverhulme's collection gone, taken away! It was a slur upon London as an Art capital, a slur upon England herself, for was not a nation's Art its chief strength and treasure? A steam of tears rose from a dozen editorial pages. With the lamentable psychology of one who does not count his chickens until they have been run over, the press pointed out that Leverhulme's collection included two paintings by Rembrandt, several by Frans Hals, Gainsborough's portrait of Squire Nuttall, Reynolds' "Countess of Thanet" and "Venus," Sir Martin Shee...
...when that face glowed on the Tribune's page, no name accompanied it. Instead, quite casually, the editors cast a slur upon...
Friends of the gentleman in question who read that slur with mounting fury were not unaware of the explosive buried in the word "sheik". Despite the Tribune's artful coyness, everyone knows that the word, due to its association with certain popular romances, cannot be employed without an implication of libidinousness. Unidentified! The Tribune obviously wished to suggest that the gentleman had crawled up behind the golfers with the idea of rising to his feet just as the camera snapped. If a gentleman known in innumerable homes for his geniality, probity and tact, is not protected on the veranda...