Word: discrediting
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Efforts to discredit the Mahatma on the eve of his fast ranged from official British announcements that he was being fitted with a new set of false teeth to the instinctive act of a British showman who cabled Mr. Gandhi a cash offer to come to England and starve unto Death as a sideshow freak. "Your case, right or wrong," cabled Showman Luke Gannon, "will then be understood by the people of England...
...with ambitions toward a respectable marriage. Since Jane threatened to be an embarrassing liability he decided to liquidate her. Benson was quickly arrested and the affair would have gone hard with him had not District Attorney Welden made an enemy of able, weasly Lawyer Hopkinson. The latter, hoping to discredit the District Attorney, took Benson's case, presented it in court as an issue between Vice and Respectability. With luck, perjured witnesses and slick manipulation Benson was acquitted. Benson might have gone unpunished to his grave had not the Furies taken a hand in hounding him. Human avengers came...
Despite occasional dramatic refinements that tend to discredit the entire picture, Igloo is well done. Good shots: the company of walruses inching off the ice floe; Eskimos kicking a snowball back & forth with their insteps; a whale whamming its tail out of water; a polar bear shuffling over...
...Brocken at night, smeared a goat with blood, honey and the scrapings of church bells, incanted the Latin Abracadabra. Urta Bohn, selected as being "a maiden pure in heart," officiated. Said Fraulein Bohn: "I guess I am as well qualified as any girl nowadays." The experiment, to discredit an old superstition by failing to change the goat into a young man, was successful. Next day Maiden Bohn was in bed with a severe cold...
...expense which seem to be showing improvement," he said. "But in time the larger ones must necessarily follow. ... I would attribute much more importance to the increase in electric power consumption in the country during the last two weeks than to stock or bond quotations." Only factors tending to discredit this Dawesian cheer last week were his past record and the still-sagging index of business conditions. In General Dawes's record are the following utterances: "People do not realize that conditions are gradually improving." June 5, 1930. "It [the moratorium] is an augury of improved financial conditions." June...