Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blustered that in rewriting the Banking Bill as it passed the House, Senator Glass and his subcommittee had been dominated by sinister "influences"-namely "Wall Street" and "the great New York bankers." Four of the six Senate conferees promptly refused to sit with him until he should retract his slur. Thereupon Representative Goldsborough uprose in the House, crawfished as follows: "Of course I was discussing issues and not personalities. ... I desire to say that I intended no reflection on the high patriotism, absolute integrity and high purpose of any member of the United States Senate...
Last year Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery was known to most racegoers as the horse that usually came in just after Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade. Actually, this was less a slur upon Discovery than upon the proverbial inattention of racegoers. Although it was true that Discovery was defeated by Cavalcade every time they met, he won consistently on other occasions, piled up $49,555 in prizes which made him the fifth biggest winner of 1934. This year, while Cavalcade has been in his stall, harassed by lameness, coughs and everything except a nervous breakdown, Discovery...
...start: the sound as they soar, an octave-upward slur...
...would be pointless to review here the recent editorial past of the CRIMSON to show, perhaps not without humor, that, were the CRIMSON editors and the Liberal Club members comparable as commentators on public affairs, the implied slur by the CRIMSON on the capacity of the Liberal Club would be accurate. Yet consistency is a virtue which can be practices with profit by the CRIMSON. And, finally, indulging in what is perhaps a pardonable personality, it seems to me that if the CRIMSON can demonstrate the economic harm to and plead for social justice for the Chinese in the editorial...
When President John Arnold Heydler of the National League last fortnight revealed that he had employed spies to report on the honesty of the final baseball games of the season, club-owners indignantly considered such action a serious slur on the sport. President Heydler, a onetime umpire, credited with inventing the practice of keeping baseball batting averages, promptly resigned from the job he has held since 1918, gave poor health as his reason...