Word: discreditably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daisy de Boe, onetime secretary to Clara Bow, testified last week when placed on trial by her employer, accused of embezzling $16,000 from a special account on which she was allowed to sign checks. Unable to disprove the embezzlements. Blonde de Boe tried hard to excuse herself and discredit Clara by attributing her own evil to the bad influence of the cinemactress...
...Federal Power Commission. All power witnesses before it are suspected at the outset and the inquisitorial questions of such Senators as Nebraska's Howell, Iowa's Brookhart, Washington's Dill, Montana's Wheeler, New York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small or old or indirect for the Couzens committee to dig up and magnify into a sinister link with the "power trust...
...Holy Land. In those days we learned to look up to you for your integrity and high sense of honor. In this hour of crisis your soldiers appeal to you to prevail upon your fellow British citizens to resist this latest attempt to impugn British honor and to discredit the British sense of fair play and justice...
...bulletin to the press he formally charged that, in order to discredit the Fascist Party, the Communist Party caused its members to smash the windows and to shout with diabolic cunning as they did so, "Hail Hitler...
...than a broad hint. The head of the English Department at Hunter College and John Macy offer their work to the public as the latest contribution to the "Ask Me Another" game and then go on to hope it may "lure the reader into further readings". Without attempting to discredit this landable ambition, suffice it to say that "Do You Know English Literature?" is just the sort of thing for those frantic hours when "further readings" is impractical...