Word: innuendo
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Author Cabell claims credit for at least sticking closer to the original story than Shakespeare did. He certainly sticks closer to Cabell than to the Vikings. Like his score-odd previous tales (Jurgen, et al.), the trade-mark of Hamlet Had an Uncle is arch pedantry, medieval rhetoric, amorous innuendo...
...words) taken from 205 witnesses, it was a document that no radical could have expected from the Dies Committee. Loudly critics have cried that Martin Dies was leading a witch hunt, that he was emulating A. Mitchell Palmer, that he was a Fascist, that he relied on hearsay and innuendo and accused individuals of Communist activities without giving them a chance to reply. As the parade of disgruntled ex-Communists to the witness stand continued, and as Chairman Dies muttered darkly about masquerading liberals up to no good, the Dies Committee looked for a time like as big a scandal...
...words) taken from 205 witnesses, it was a document that no radical could have expected from the Dies Committee. Loudly critics have cried that Martin Dies was leading a witch hunt, that he was emulating A. Mitchell Palmer, that he was a Fascist, that he relied on hearsay and innuendo and accused individuals of Communist activities without giving them a chance to reply. As the parade of disgruntled ex-Communists to the witness stand continued, and as Chairman Dies muttered darkly about masquerading liberals up to no good, the Dies Committee looked for a time like as big a scandal...
...process cannot go on and will be gradually undermined if men can be put on the witness stand without protection of counsel and without any adequate opportunity to answer. There is no more cruel way to destroy the reputation of a man than by publicity, by inference and by innuendo...
...from the bishop. He denounced the "scandal mongers [who] have spoken of me as though my sole friends are publicans and sinners. That is, I am proud to say, true! I have no friends so self-respecting that they are in need of no repentance. . . . Why whisper and use . . . innuendo! Why not be forthright and say, as I frankly say ... that Mrs. Ablewhite and I have been at the Chez Paree, which we have enjoyed, and to other restaurants where shows have been as good or not as good. It is no crime to eat and drink for enjoyment...