Word: slurs
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...whole thing is a joke," said Mr. Wheeler, when he got back to Buffalo; and he went on to state that although he saw no one "staggering drunk", several "were a little wobbly." As if this slur on the quality of Ontario's four per cent beer were not enough, he even characterized it as "slops...
Without revealing his purpose to the rest of the board the president agreed to slur the character of the actress in the Movie Issue. When it appeared the actress filed suit and hailed the board into court...
...reviewer of last year's Pi Eta production referred to the "elephantine grace" of the chorus, and Coach Lord does not intend such a slur to be repeated. "Look at the chorus!" be exclaimed last night to a CRIMSON reporter, a privileged spectator at the dress rehearsal. "Is there anything elephantine about that? You put in your paper that the Pi Eta show this year has some real dancing and the 'real' in italics--if you have any italics...
...Biography. For the first time, R. L. S. is observed without prejudice. And for the first time the facts appear at last to be accessible about this strange, heroic figure. Mr. Steuart does not slur over his defects. He sets down the facts accurately but sympathetically, substitutes for the idol a man. His estimate of Stevenson's work is careful and just. He sees him as a writer not of the first rank?a master of the English language, doing perfectly things of secondary significance. But whatever his merits as an artist, as a man he stands among the heroes...
...American backwoods developed men with plenty of red-blooded fighting spirit, but unfortunately furnished them with a fighting code which demanded just one retaliation for every slur on a man's name, home or country, namely, immediate and direct action with ax, gun, or flst. Where each man who was not a coward was considered equal to his neighbor, there was no discounting an insult because of the stupidity or lack of breeding in the man responsible for it. An earlier and more polished society which recognized the duelling code distinguished between affronts coming from a "gentleman", and those arising...