Word: innuendo
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...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...
...your issue of Jan. 20 under the title of "New CINCUS," by which you no doubt mean Commander-in-Chief, U. S. I do so because I think your dirty digs at Vice Admiral Hepburn are entirely uncalled for, misleading and spiteful. . . . Any fool can readily see the innuendo in the first paragraph of the article. Vice Admiral Hepburn does not owe his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet in any degree to the fact that the President and the Secretary of the Navy are old acquaintances of his, as it appears to me you have clearly insinuated...
...Smart writing" is good writing only from the superficial point of view. It consists of well-phrased "easy deductions," employment of striking adjectives and adverbs, rhetorical questions, subtlety that is not subtlety, at all, brevity that is not scholarly, and of innuendo to camouflage ignorance. In short, "smart writing" is attention to everything except the difficult task of weighting considerations and of truthfully appraising the proposition at hand...