Word: baselessness
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Explanation: last week the Imperial Government needed to distract public opinion from the fact that the French Embassy was forcing it to eat crow. Irate France demanded and received apologies for baseless charges recently circulated that handsome French Assistant Naval Attache Tessier Ducros has proved irresistible to 30 ladies, some of the highest Japanese nobility and gentry, others waitresses, professors' wives. In return for his gallant favors they were supposed to have slipped him slews of State secrets...
...which this nationalism fostered by the dominant class today is rushing us, there remains enough life to carry through a social revolution, it will doubtless be effected in every nation of Europe, and a federation of communist states established. (That limited prediction is by no means a wild, baseless forecast. Almost any observer of the European scene would second it.) Whether that system could keep the peace among its component parts can never, of course, be adequately settled until it has been tried. But this much one can say: nationalism is only an idea...
...greatest achievement was to go to bed at eleven o'clock every night") she soon found her married life was to have no pretense of love, not even (until Louis finally consented to an operation) a chance of children. Though scandal surrounded her, Biographer Anthony thinks it was baseless rumor. Marie did have expensive tastes, however, and loved cards. The evening before her 21st birthday she played faro continuously for 36 hours. One lover (Biographer Anthony thinks) Marie Antoinette did have: discreet, able Count Axel Fersen, a Swede who served two and one-half years in the U.S. Revolution...
Many a South Carolinian promptly rose to denounce and deny a baseless slur not only on Edward F. Hutton (who in addition to his shooting preserve, maintains a large duck sanctuary) but also on the hospitality of his State. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce investigated the charge, found not even a rumor to support...
...been charged in the past, not without basis, that the University took an unwarranted attitude of self-sufficiency in the face of public criticism. Failure to deny or explain is too easily twisted into something else. In the present case, however, that charge cannot be made. Criticism was baseless from the beginning, since the University only acceded to the mayor's request on condition that the arrangement be legally approved, and further renounced any profit from the enterprise. In the face of these facts, further comment is unnecessary...