Word: soubriquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most career men (diplomats) begin right by possessing a private school or tutor background and a Harvard education. Schooling at this institution, which delights in the soubriquet of the American Oxford, gives a clipped accent not unlike the British speech."--Chicago Tribune, January...
...bulk of his statements about national economic and political policy, the head of the Republican party demonstrated that haziness and self-contradiction which earlier earned him the soubriquet of "confused liberal." Only this time the strands were such that "confused conservative" would be a more accurate designation...