Word: discreditably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue, then," he continued, "is not between China and Japan, as it seems, but between the militaristic and liberal parties of Japan alone, the militarists hoping to discredit and annoy the liberals by stirring up trouble with a foreign nation." Proof of this is shown by the fact that Cheng Haseuh-Tiang, vice-commander-in-chief of the army of China, from the first clash with the Japanese, made every effort to get out of fighting, ordered the troops to remain in the barracks, and tried to avoid trouble as much as was possible, relying on the League of Nations...
...picture out of Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Producer Samuel Goldwyn proceeded simply. He bought the screen rights for $150,000, hired eight actors from the original cast, photographed the play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play and the cinema reflects no discredit on the latter. It loses a little by necessary abridgments in dialog and by the limitations of the camera when confronted by the peculiar problems of the mise-en-scene, but these are trivial defects. In the large, the cinema achieves the same effect as the play: a neat melodrama given...
Whenever during recent months the price of wheat has slumped lower, the Federal Farm Board has charged that grain speculators were manipulating the market to discredit the Board's efforts to help the farmer. When fortnight ago Vice President Curtis and Senator Watson begged the Board to hold its 200.000,000 bu. off the market long enough for prices to rise, Board officials obliquely declared that such requests were inspired by avaricious wheat traders plotting to rob the farmer. Few persons appeared to heed these vague accusations. But last week the Farm Board took them to the White House...
...great electric interests, General Electric, Westinghouse and Radio Corp. of America, which have pooled all their television patents and are working secretly to perfect them, making none of their results public. This second group has put no television apparatus on the market because 1) it might reflect discredit on them to offer for sale any product which had not been perfected to a reasonable degree, and more saliently 2) they do not know how television will affect their other interests, radio and talking pictures. The independents, though not organized, are doing all they can to publicize their products, get people...
...weekly of Harlem, makes this distinction in its editorial style book: "When it is necessary, or when use makes for clearness, use the word 'Negro' in referring to the achievements of the race and capitalize it at all times. In reports . . . dealing with crime or anything calculated to bring discredit upon the race, use the word 'colored...