Word: calumnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of April 3, the Boston Herald gave its usual space to its most distinguished calumnist Mr. Bill Cunningham. The energy of that sporting publicist was devoted to the task of besmirching the memory of a distinguished scholar, inspiring teacher, and man of unflinching honor, Professor Matthiessen. Mr. Cunningham with his customary delicacy of style and feeling saw fit to convert personal tragedy into political comedy. It was one of those days on which his brutality got the better of his sentimentality. Perhaps he set out deliberately to violate every standard of human decency. More probably he seized instinctively upon...
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