Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...slur upon a horse-loving people," cried an outraged letter writer in the London Times. In the House of Commons, a Tory and two Laborites joined forces to present a motion condemning the "cruelty of the Grand National." Animal lovers of the National Equine Defense League and the Society for the Modification of Steeplechasing and Grand National Reform closed ranks with their fellows in the League Against Cruel Sports to bring an action against the Aintree race promoters under the Protection of Animals...
There is a nasty little slur on the theatre and popular taste playing at the Wilbur. Called twin Beds, it is dedicated to the Proposition that people of limited theatre-going experience will enjoy smutty leers and painfully-stressed innuendoes. The audience, seduced by a flood of "complimentary" tickets offering admission at half price, is mainly composed of giggling secretaries and their beaux in tic-less sport shirts: all alive to the glamour of a theatre first night...