Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Epithet...
Naturally, if you are not potbellied, the epithet rolls off you like water from a duck's back. But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!" That is your modus operandi! How do you like it applied to yourself? I hope it raises your blood pressure...
...last week, the windup of Minnesota's gubernatorial campaign was sufficient reason. That spectacle had reached a point where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson, stung by his Republican opponent's charges that the Farmer-Labor administration was a corrupt city slicker machine, hurled back the worst epithet he could think of, called burly young Republican Harold E. Stassen a "drugstore cowboy." As fantastic were Republican Stassen's chief campaign planks against the most successful Farmer-Labor party in the U. S. : he promised: 1) a State Labor Relations Act, and 2) to do something for Minnesota...
...hearty epithet frequently on the lips of the late King George V in private- although always eschewed by the English in public-was "bloody," and this Ambassador Kennedy has now adopted at London into his pungent speech. Last week, just before going down with Mrs. Kennedy to Windsor Castle, the Ambassador called in correspondents, exploded vehemently against the presentation at Court of socialite U. S. women. Cried he: "I believe this policy is undemocratic and un-American...
Eighteen years after a storm of controversy was aroused over his championship of the policemen in the Boston police strike of 1920 and the epithet "Bolshevik" was hurled at his head, Harold J. Laski, former lecturer and tutor in the department of History, Government and Economics, urged socialism as a means of preventing "a new and dark age," in a Ford Hall Forum lecture last night...