Word: bogeying
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...stigma was fastened upon Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, when the Conservatives released the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" on election eve. The "Letter" purported to show that Labor Leaders were receiving pay and orders from "Moscow." Today, after four years of pointing at the Red Bogey Man, the Conservatives and "Stability" Baldwin apparently believe that they can strike the old attitude again...
...Hermann Stinnes Jr.−not his late father STINNES, the titan who turned his coal and iron into fleets of ships, miles of factories, myriads of newspaper presses−all, all HIS (TIME, April 21, 1924). In those mighty days STINNES was the Despot of German industry and the Bogey Man of Europe...
...Wheeling and Lake Erie and possibly the Wabash. All eyes were focused on a Cleveland coal producer,* owner of the P. and W. Va., 45% stockholder in the W. and L. E. Was Frank E. Taplin to be the successor of Leonor Fresnel Loree, reviving the carefully laid bogey of a fifth trunk line? Magnates pondered...
Seated in the Canadian Senate, Secretary Kellogg heard a speech denouncing the thought of Canada's annexation by the U. S. as a "bogey" kept alive by Canadian alarmists. He lunched with Prime Minister King, dined with U. S. Minister William Phillips. At a state dinner given by the Government, he bespoke "rivalry without bitterness" and proceeded to a reception given by Governor-General and Viscountess Willingdon. Returning home after four days, he brought a thorough going invitation to President Coolidge to visit Canada...
...Sound Bogey. Seasoned critics overlooked the weaseling in Il Duce's statement, last week, and did not stint their praise. He had made, they knew, a sound," judicious bogey. They recalled that among all the allied powers the only one to make par in Devaluating its currency is Great Britain...