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Word: blackguardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago Pearson filed a second libel suit after Pegler had called him a "lying blackguard." Last week as part proof of the let's-be-nice agreement, Pearson produced a lamblike 1946 note to him from Roaring Lion Pegler: "Let bygones be bygones . . . That is my sincere desire ... I do not believe our present course, if pursued, would benefit anyone and I do think we might bring unpleasant attention to the newspaper business, which has been very good to both of us. In fact, I think it is wasteful to devote valuable space to personal controversies between columnists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From A to Z | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...given up one bit of his overworked function of calling names, Pegler printed his own "amended answer" to Pearson's complaint in his second suit. Wrote Pegler: "[Pearson] is a habitual, incorrigible, professional liar, as distinguished from an occasional or accidental liar ... Plaintiff is a liar, faker and blackguard from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From A to Z | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...spent much time in his boat." Cried Carlyle: "Why, he's no more Reverend than I am! He's a very old friend of mine . . . and [he] might have spent his time to much better purpose than in busying himself with the verses of that old Mohammedan blackguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Translator of the Rubaiyat | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...London book seller, "Major" Byron's wife sold 47 forged Byron autographs to Publisher John Murray. Soon she was back with a swatch of "lost" Shelley letters. Soon the "Major" was in touch with Mary Shelley. Their biographical black marketing was sometimes disturbed by shrill cries of "Blackguard!" from Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seeing Shelley Plainer | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Biographers who have pictured Composer Richard Wagner as a bit of a blackguard, a touch of a toady, had some added evidence last week. Musical Courier printed some early Wagnerian letters, extracted from a Swiss musical journal by Robert Hernried, Viennese refugee and music professor at St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wagner, Bootlicker | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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