Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Library has had its full slur of the unusual good fortune which has made this an extraordinary year for the whole University. If, as its friends believe, the Library is, more than any other organic part, the heart of the University, this good Luck is no more than its due, but it has not been any less pleasant on that account...
Perceiving that he had blundered, Senator Reed shifted his attack from the Press to the unnamed tattling Senator. With correspondents glaring at him from the gallery, he admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting...
Legitimate actors, who long have repeated the slur that the only two-syllable word that Hollywood knows how to pronounce is "fil-lum," may not forget their gibing and journey toward the west. Broadway producers, however, shrugged shoulders at the talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said Florenz Ziegfeld: "Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore...
...Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been at least privy to the swindle. Incomplete investigation seemed to show that this slur upon the Cognac Tycoon was baseless...
...phonetic-fault-finder Southwick worry less on how Al Smith enunciates and more on how Al meditates. And lest he forgets-a certain Republican president of a very recent administration did not noticeably slur his words but yet he was the cause of innumerable slurs upon his country...