Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innuendo of Mr. Justice Joyce in the case between Chang and The Chinese etc. Co., Ltd. directed at Mr. Hoover as is intimated in the book above mentioned...
...signed disputed agreements covering the transfer of Chinese mines to an English syndicate. According to Justice Joyce, Agent Hoover "went so far as to use various threats" to Chang and "took possession of some of the title deeds of the property by main force." Justice Joyce's innuendo: "It has not been shown to me that his Excellency Chang has been guilty of any breach of faith or of any impropriety at all, which is more than I can say for some of the other parties concerned." In the Strange Career this quotation, like everything else, is spitefully twisted...
...expressions of derision and despair. Groucho Marx makes friends with a gangster, throws a revolver into a pail of water. "It was necessary to drown the gat," he says, "but we saved a little gitten." Later he undertakes to discuss Love: "When love goes out the door money flies innuendo...
...desire for such a building, it is obvious, that only a small minority want it. If a war memorial is to be built there is no reason why it could not be something that is generally desirable and placed somewhere other than in the already crowded Yard. Before this innuendo suddenly springs into an unexpected and distasteful reality it certainly should be modified by the disapproving wishes of the large majority of Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates...
...CRIMSON is an attempt to give to the undergraduate body some idea of student feeling toward the courses offered in Harvard College. The faculty is amply represented in the catalogue and the various conferences with instructors that are provided. Unassisted, student feeling never becomes more than an uncertain innuendo that is never sufficiently obvious to be effective...