Word: innuendo
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...several loans to me during the years 1935 and 1936, prior to the time when it was within any possible contemplation that he would ever be the recipient of any State contract. These loans have been reduced ... to the sum of $6,000. ... I deny Wilson's malicious innuendo that there has been favoritism...
Dean Ralph Dennis of Northwestern University's School of Speech awarded to Charlie McCarthy, No. i U. S. dummy, the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. The citation: "He is ... a prince of parasites, violent in company, churlish in behaviour, acid in conversation, wooden-faced in all relationships, and in all other aspects a typical product of higher learning in America...
...barged in on drawing-room Buchmanism abroad, and has returned to bring this grand new message of the inspirational values of open confession straight from the horse mouth of one Lady Wiggam to her own circle of friends. In one week end of sustained busybodying, Susan manages, by artful innuendo and a few lucky potshots, to disrupt the placidly illicit love life of her hostess, turn a well adjusted May-December marriage into a triangular mess...
...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...