Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been in the Navy continuously more than 39 years and never heard the word used as referring to a sailor until during the recent World War. It is only the recruits or some new men in the service that do not object to the use of the term. All the officers and 90% of the men regard the word as an insult on account of its offensive real meaning...
...therefore request that you do not use the word again as meaning a sailor, or if you believe in its use after reading the above that you do not send me any copy of your paper in which it is used. Feeling sure that you will see the justice of the foregoing, and wishing success to your paper without the use of any such offensive terms...
Your usually comprehensive magazine has miserably failed of late to expose or even mention the "exploits" - not to use a cruder term - of the Prince of Wales at Biarritz and Paris...
...Making a daily topical survey of all the bureaus pf the National Government, grouping related activities, is a work which will enable our citizens to understand and use the fine facilities the Congress provides for them...
...Democratic plan is to use the surplus as a basis for a general downward revision of tax schedules...