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...would have experimented with the best results, with and without the added weight. As it was, I did not hope to smuggle a 200 or 300-lb. block of iron, lying on the trunk floor, through a microscopic inspection. Aside from moral and racing considerations, this is a slur on the mentality of one who got all the way to Florida all by himself...
...first, as secretary and protege of the retired but influential courtier-statesman Sir William Temple, he seemed to see the world at his feet. Then came the inevitable slur, or imagined slur, for Swift had the thinnest of skins. He left Temple's protection only to learn that pride is a luxury to the poor. Then a kinsman, the great John Dryden, saw his verses and said: "Cousin Swift . . . nature has never formed you for a Pindaric poet." At 26 he entered holy orders "as [one joins] a regiment." He was tormented by pride and used this...
...Philadelphian born and bred, I strongly resent the slur upon my native city contained in the May 16 letter of Dr. Robert W. Blair of Hollywood, in which he advises Correspondent Brown (late of Sweden) to seek sweet surcease of sex in Philadelphia. Every red-blooded Philadelphian from the Navy Yard to Willow Grove, from Tinicum Creek to the Main Line (inclusive) will rise in protest against this foul slander ... Of course it's a well-known fact that things are different over in Camden...
Miss Bisco, as an extremely winning Alice, speaks her lines more clearly than most of the cast, who occasionally bellow or slur Carroll's wit right out of the range of their three-to-ten-year-old audience. But thanks to Thomas Whedon's direction, even when dialogue and lyrics fail to overcome the steady mutter of the junior critics, the pantomime and by-play are sufficient to keep them entertained...
...Slurs & Snarls. In the first seven days of hearings, McCarthy raised nearly twice as many "points of order" as all of the other participants combined. With every McCarthy point of order went an speech, in almost every speech there was at least one slur, and every slur invoked one or more answers. When Secretary of the Army Stevens was on the witness stand, McCarthy spoke about witnesses who are "flagrantly dishonest." Sneering at his good friend from Idaho, Republican Senator Henry Dworshak, McCarthy announced that his first choice as an substitute for himself was actually Maryland's Republican Senator...