Word: besmeared
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...elbows, and besmear our swords...
...only 45 years ago by Warren Harding, a man with an eye for figures. He set up a Budget Bureau and named as its first director Chicago Banker Charles Gates Dawes, a frugal fellow who came to deplore "the dirty demagogues of both parties who get the report and besmear and befog it in the minds of the public." Dawes (who became Coolidge's Vice President) had ingenious ways of calling free-spending military officers onto the carpet. On one occasion, he summoned some of them to his office, vigorously swept his rug with two brooms, then demanded...
...just finished reading your very nasty article concerning the membership of the America First Committee [TIME, Oct. 6]. You can't besmear General Wood's character so you just paint him as an estimable old gentleman who doesn't suspect much and go on to abuse of the membership. What you Easterners do not know about America First is really funny...
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