Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present case is the greatest divorce story in the history of journalism. . . . Moreover, the English are thorough masters if not the inventors of the 'I hear' and 'they say' school of journalism, the questioning innuendo and the sly hint which get the story across without laying it on the line, and they could handle this one in that familiar technique. . . . One can only decide that in the present case the press of England has lifted its cap to a fast grounder and let it roll to the outfield to cool...
...state of affairs, with feline animosities dictating destiny, and candidates being made and broken by the jealousies of dignitaries' wives, is bound to bring reminiscences, of similar doings off the stage. But is is not at all necessary to the success of the play that the polotical and social innuendo strike home. The fascinating tangles of the plot and the satire wrapped up in it, are quite sufficient. Jane Cowl, aspiring all the time to the first ladyship, throws the political impetus to her loathed rival's husband, thinking thereby to tie her down to a deadweight and keep...
...rebuttal. Dr. Thorpe's attorneys wheeled into action the most formidable instrument for destroying a film character by sexual innuendo that California had seen since the 1922 "Fatty" Arbuckle case. Dr. Thorpe, after the divorce, had apparently stolen a two-volume diary kept by his exwife. Its revelations, doled out day by day from his attorney's office, were as purple as the ink they were written in. "Why the hell I keep writing things down in this book I don't know," began the first instalment of what the tabloid Press promptly labeled "The Misstep Diary...
...Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) laid a long-lived rumor by declaring that her ancestors were all Protestants, had settled in New England before 1680, that her name had always been Frances Perkins, that "this appeal to racial prejudice and the attempt at political propaganda by unworthy innuendo must be repugnant to all honorable men and women." Said she: "There are no Jews in my ancestry. If I were a Jew, I would make no secret of it. On the contrary I would be proud to acknowledge...
...Deputies who now not only follow him in the Chamber but even ape him. When he claps his hands they all clap their hands; when he is amused they are all amused ; when Léon Blum stalks to the tribune to hurl tor rents of sarcasm and scathing innuendo at the Cabinet - any Cabinet - they are all ecstatic, then uproarious with cheers. Temperamentally a destructive critic, Socialist Blum, who has refused numerous invitations to enter the French Cabinet of the moment, is credited with having been indispensable to bringing about the fall of several of his country...