Word: innuendo
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...issue of June 17, p. 22, contains a statement reflecting upon the private character of General Ho Ying-chin. It says: "Most Chinese were convinced that War Minister Ho had himself been rewarded with Japanese cash last week.'' There is no truth whatever in this innuendo thus given out by TIME. In justice to General Ho TIME should make honorable amende. Will you please see that immediate correction be made so as to remove the undesirable impression which that statement in TIME has given to the public...
...impossible that such a man as Dr. Dewey should not have understood so simple a fact. Perhaps the solution lies in his pragmatism. An idea is true if it works. This sort of cant with its innuendo against the rich certainly works in most audiences in the country. It is the stuff of demagoguery. For that reason Dr. Dewey can get away with a lot of loose thinking and still be consistent to his philosophy. But this very fact is what makes intelligent and stupid alike have less faith in the power of the human mind. If the greatest philosopher...
SHADOW ON THE WALL-H. C. Bailey-Crime Club ($2). Mr. Fortune foresees strange events, solves murder, finds a dope trail, in conversational innuendo, in his first book-length story...
...reach saturation point. Of these 14 short stories a bare half-dozen were up to standard; the rest were as undistinguished as run-of-the-mill magazine fiction. Faulkner seldom writes about ordinary human beings. When he does he is careful to hide them in a mist of sinister innuendo. His forte is pathology; his most effective stories depend on madness gradually unveiled. In a novel he has space enough for his tortuous unraveling, but many of these short stories fail to convince simply because the reader has not had sufficient time to become bemused. The four best stories stand...
Meanwhile the family of a taxpayer and he himself would be subject to all the humiliation that comes with an indictment in the court of public opinion. If the grand jury subsequently refused to indict, the injustice would not be erased. There would always be the innuendo derived from the publicity given originally that somehow the taxpayer wasn't exactly on the level with his government...