Word: denials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political speculators wondered how Black Jack Democrat's "sanguine expectations" might have been affected by Little John Democrat's somewhat insulting denial of any connection between them...
...Warrior got an exoneration from a New York State Senator who had been with him constantly at the Syracuse fair. He got a denial of the letter from its alleged writer and an evasion from its alleged recipient. Then he issued a document entitled: "Nailing a Lie in the Whispering Campaign...
...Paddock, U. S. sprinter, whose amateur status and sportsmanship have long been questioned. The Sportsman, a magazine impeccable in taste, had damaging evidence against him (TIME, June, 11); a distinguished vice president of the American Olympic Committee resigned because of him; the British protested against him. Yet his simple denial of misbehavior and a look at the rule-book were sufficient to allow him to represent the U. S. at the IXth Olympiad. John Weissmuller, fast U. S. swimmer, untainted amateur, became the subject of a typical controversy among U. S. coaches. Should he devote all his efforts...
...call on Senator Norris and beg him to reconsider? And did Senator Norris then refuse a third time? Such were the stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek denial or confirmation from busy Nominee Hoover, whose door is guarded by a chubby secretary and the expletive: "A lot of foolish nonsense!" (see LETTERS...
...ready echo from a rival, Ralph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World. Publisher Pulitzer produced records. Said he, hotly: "The World has deliberately thrown away . . . will continue to throw away . . . millions of dollars of advertising by attacking for the public good various interests." He flung a contemptuous denial across the sea to M. Siegfried: "With the exception of a few blackguardly sheets . . . very precisely known . . . the press does not prostitute itself...