OBJECTION TO A WORD
Sir-I write to ask if it is necessary for your film reviewer to use, and you as Editor, to print, such a repulsive and filthy expression as the one used in describing Bette Davis in The Little Foxes and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara? The writer was a bit ashamed of using it, as he screened himself by saying it was the description used by some other reviewer. Anyway, to me, it is one of the most disgusting epithets one could use, and I would be grateful if its use could be put out of your
paper.
E. J.
ROBERTSON
(Whakatane).
t4f our correspondent will supply a more elegant that conveys as much, we shall apologise to the dogs. Meanwhile we can think of no reason why the female of the species should be more repulsive than the male.-Ed]. ~
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 4
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143OBJECTION TO A WORD New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 4
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