Word: sobriquets
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...breadth of aim in History and Literature has earned for it the sobriquet of department of Trends. Tendencies, and Traditions. As a matter of fact, there is a strong tendency, particularly, in the writing of honors essays, to concentrate on political theory as the most tangible expression of the spirit of any age. But it is one of the advantages of the department that men are allowed almost complete freedom to work mainly either in history or in literature or in political theory...
...National City was biggest U. S. bank long before its resources reached $1,000,000,000 in 1919. The sobriquet, "Billion Dollar Charlie," became current when its deposits reached that figure in 1926. Though its assets increased to more than two billion, it was surpassed by Albert Henry Wiggin's Chase in 1930. Last December assets of Chase were $1,856,290,000; of National City...
...Cleveland's outworn sobriquet...
...Kenmore was a vicious old rascal who sent his wife to an asylum, tried to blight his daughter's romance, kept a mistress. His death brings to the stage an extremely agreeable detective named "Monkey" Henderson, an eccentric police officer whose physique and peculiar actions have earned him his sobriquet on the force. Performed by Richard Whorf, "Monkey" Henderson is a refreshingly new type among stage sleuths. His criminological methods are a succession of humorous short cuts, and he is bent on saving the audience's time and the taxpayer's money. The conclusion of Monkey is surprising enough...
...scholarship, but rarely at that of friendship, for friendship's sage alone. It is encouraging therefore when opportunities arise in which mutual respect can be red in other fields more common to the student body as a whole. Such, however, did happen last week when the "Faculty Rowdies," a sobriquet devised by the ingenious student, met the "Campus Gentlemen," again ironically named to fight it out in baseball...