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...Cleveland admitted paternity but won anyway, aided by the opposition's slur that Democrats were the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." He was again the winner in 1892 against Benjamin Harrison...
...masculinity slur especially worried him, and still does. "I come from a family that has pride in family, pride in ancestors." He also felt that people in the street were thinking, "There goes that queer, there goes that homosexual, or there goes that man who is afraid of his masculinity." As to his attitude toward Hitler, his lawyer introduced letters written to his young children during World War II. Said one: Hitler "is a bad mistake God made once. He doesn't make many, but when He does, they are loo loos...
Required by the city government to attend, some Houston police grumbled, read paperbacks or worked crossword puzzles during initial sessions. At the time, Police Chief Herman Short, a tough traditionalist, helped little with snide remarks about "slobbering sociologists." But as the meetings progressed, he apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver...
...pupils, most of whom are from poverty areas in East Harlem, may wear "Afro" haircuts with pride, knowing that their white classmates from high-rise apartment buildings cannot match them. No one pretends that there are no racial tensions at the school-but whenever a child tosses a racial slur, it becomes a topic of freewheeling discussion in which teachers lead the students in discovering the falseness of their generalizations...
Indeed, the mild catcalls and bilious banner-waving provided last week by several hundred Greenwich Village vigilantes in front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art seemed a slur on the once dread name of Dada. They were protesting a survey of Dada and surrealism, replete with crispy fried canapés, Galanos evening gowns, and a "bourgeois" black-tie dinner...