Word: stigmas
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...compared with the majority of the singers who have appeared in Chicago this season.* La Fiamma was by & large the City Opera Company's most creditable production. It was not enough to make subscribers forget what they had sat through before, or to wipe away the general stigma which has attached itself to Chicago's opera...
...prevent race pollution, we have judges who send men to jail for defiling the proud German race! . . . The priests will marry even a Negro and a German woman, providing they are both Catholics, but after nine months what do we have in the basket? A child with every stigma of darky blood. ... In America almost every week a Negro is lynched for assaulting a white woman. We in Germany say it serves him right! . . . But in Germany has a single Jew been shot...
Horses are now obsolete as a means of speedy locomotion. This, far from spoiling the sport of harness racing, has acted as a stimulus, by removing all its stigma of utility. Always popular in rural communities, harness racing lost favor in Eastern cities in the years following the War. In 1926, William H. Cane, a rich contractor and trotting fancier of Goshen, helped promote the first Hambletonian, named for the famed sire of 95% of U. S. harness racers, for the undreamed of purse of $73,000. The Hambletonian, which promptly became the Kentucky Derby of trotting, has lately caused...
...sibilant words, came to his peroration: "If you hold this resolution Constitutional, Congress will have put a stig-" at that point his false teeth popped clean out of his mouth. He grabbed his plate, just as it reached the green baize table, shoved it back in his mouth, continued "stigma on the good name of the country...
Warner issued the following statement last night: "Harvard, in its position as one of the leading colleges of the country, should not allow itself to be branded with the stigma of standing by while war comes closer. The Committee means to do whatever can be done to combat...