Word: sobriquets
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...teach it to children. So I thought I'd teach grown-ups a thing or two." Her fondness for forbidden words kept her in and out of courts on obscenity charges but did nothing to hurt her recordings, which sold in the millions and earned her the sobriquet "the female Lenny Bruce...
...dropped yet another game at Ebbets Field. A cab driver carrying Mullin back to Manhattan asked him, "How'd our Bums do today?" The designation seemed brilliantly appropriate, and the woebegone tramp made his debut in the paper next day. Mullin affectionately dubbed the Dodgers Bums, and the sobriquet stuck. Before long, other cartoonists were forced to devise their own bums to denote the Dodgers...
...years, then to public schools when the Depression hit. She excelled at nothing, except perhaps having a good time. "I liked boys at an awful early age," she says, and in one of her high school annuals, where senior personalities were characterized by book titles, Martha's sobriquet was Arms and the Man. "We certainly never would have predicted she'd ever have an opinion on a national issue worth listening to," says one of her teachers. "Martha had a good mind when she used it," says another. "But she never used it. She was a pretty, happy, empty-headed...
...bachelor popularity of owlish Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon's one-man think tank, has earned him the White House sobriquet "playboy of the western wing." Last week his reputation was appraised by pretty blonde Washington Hostess Barbara Howar. Said she on-camera to TV's Mike Wallace: "Mike, it takes time to be a swinger, you know. Henry doesn't have that kind of time. If he's taking you out to dinner, don't start to get dressed until the third time he's called...
Only rarely does Adam Walinsky publicly display the toughness that won him the sobriquet "Adamant Adam" while he was Robert Kennedy's premier speechwriter. But when a drunk at a construction site baited the dovish Walinsky about his feelings for "the boys in Viet Nam," the questioner got a snarling reply: "They're too damn good to die there...