Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1919 — Glossing Over the Facts. [ARTICLE]

Glossing Over the Facts.

"Pa, what is a euphemism?” “I’ll have to explain that by giving you an example, son.” “Yes, pa.? “The dictionary says a euphemism is ‘a figure of speech by which a word or phrase more agreeable or less offensive is substituted for one more accurately expressive of what is meant? as in the case of the society reporter who states that a widow who has been married three or four times is ‘led to the altar’ by a wealthy old codger who never had the slightest notion of getting married until he faced the preacher.” —Birmingham Age-Herald.