Word: slurrings
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...Slur? Ad? Humor...
...Cowardly Slur Sirs...
...hopelessly outvoted by a church which is fast slipping into Modernism and Apostasy, he was never afraid to inform the church of her danger, and in the face of ridicule and hostility, his superb moral courage showed that he feared God more than he feared man. The last cowardly slur with which an ungrateful America besmirched his memory was the canard that he died from overeating. Mr. Bryan was crucified by a loose-moraled Christian citizenship and a false religious leadership...
...Government was furious. Nobody knew that Samuel Insull still had $10.000, unless, perhaps, it was the Ministry of the Interior. Premier Tsaldaris promptly forced Minister of the Interior M. J. Mountsourides to resign. Greek public opinion was outraged at this slur on the nation's honor, at this insult to a friendly power. Admiral Hadjikyriakos. commander of the Greek navy, radioed the malodorous Maiotis to return to Piraeus instantly. The ship swung round. Samuel Insull, smiling happily under his new black mustache, thought he was bound for Abyssinia, one of the few spots in all the world where...
Everyone knows that the cricket produces its chirps by rubbing one fore wing across the other. With a microscope and sound camera Entomologist Frank Eugene Lutz of the American Museum of Natural History lately discovered that a cricket, outheifetzing Heifetz, makes a full-tone slur downward from the fifth "D" above middle "C" in one-fiftieth of a second. It makes four of these notes, separated by infinitesimal pauses, at each stroke of its bow. The cricket's stridor is a love song, produced only by the adult male. When the bemused female approaches he tones down his serenade...