Word: slurs
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...Cinema review, issue of July 3, of Hold Your Man says that Eddie and Ruby were married by an elderly colored clergyman. The picture shows the marriage performed by a white minister. By the way, Negroes do not relish the use of the word "colored." It rather is a slur-as indicating a mixture of white and Negro blood, and therefore not to be desired, either way. In our town, county and State, there is no race problem. The lines are clearly and unmistakably defined, and there is no attempt, nor I believe desire, to cross that line. The Negroes...
...respects and appreciates the work done by Captain Purer on the F-4 more than I do: but it had very little to do with the raising of the S-51 and the S-4 and your correspondent of May 22 puts an entirely unwarranted slur upon the facts published by TIME in connection with the work done in salvaging those vessels...
...Detroiters of medieval church paintings. Detroit's art fight started when some clergymen called the vaccination panel a sacrilegious parody. The Institute's secretary blasted back that anyone who saw the Holy Family in that picture "can see spooks in the dark!" One clergyman found a further slur on Christianity in the Gothic decorations of a commercial radio topped by an adding machine in the Parke, Davis panel. Director Valentiner retorted that the museum had "invested more taxpayers' money in symbols, emblems and decorations of the Christian faith" than in those of any other religion...
Many a South Carolinian promptly rose to denounce and deny a baseless slur not only on Edward F. Hutton (who in addition to his shooting preserve, maintains a large duck sanctuary) but also on the hospitality of his State. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce investigated the charge, found not even a rumor to support...
...could have resolved the matter so promptly as did this inquisitive sexagenarian baronet, barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician. Sir Richard's musical ear told him that the tune he heard that evening was in E major, with A sharp substituted for A flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed by sharply defined steps from note to note. The melody included runs, slow trills, turns and grace notes and sounded so artificial that I felt bound to open the window and make sure that the tune...