Word: slurs
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...happen to know the personnel of the group which you dub "An A. M. A.-inspired citizens' committee." This attempt to slur a group of distinguished, public-spirited Chicagoans reflects only discredit upon the source of your news...
...blooded Brill, infuriated at the slur on his name and "family seat at the Point", often was sent into an uncontrollable rage. It was well known that he had vowed to get retribution the next time the "slanderer," as he put it, was in the vicinity. When interviewed recently he admitted that he had never read "Wickford Point." "Grandfather wouldn't permit it in the house," he snorted...
...found out that maids in the houses of Madrid noblemen get $4.50 a month, adding-either as a slur on aristocrats or a tribute to maids-that you can tell the maids from the aristocrats on the street because the maids are not allowed to wear hats. Gas is 50? a gallon. Trains are slow and jampacked with soldiers, who ride for nothing. There is plenty of fruit for sale -oranges, plums, cherries-but fish gets mighty tiresome after seven or eight meals in a row, and eggs may be available only two or three days a week. There...
Jessie Matthews, colts, and other cute people have long legs. What can Miss Peck be thinking of, to consider the expression disgusting, and an uncomplimentary slur...
...gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet of shiny big cars for his three children. Any suggestion of economy he took as a slur on his literary abilities...