Word: innuendo
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Beside the point is discussion of the treatment which exiles now receive here, or of the Transcript's innuendo on anti-Semitism, or of the irrelevant defense that the University "does not hire men on a basis of their political connections." The test of Harvard's ability to procure creative scholars may be considered to lie in its policy toward the remaining thousand and odd German exiles; among them there must be some outstanding brilliants. To advance learning the Officers may well remember that "The deed is all, and nothing the report...
...character is in strange contrast to the feverish managerial gibberings which have attended his death. The field is wide open for trenchant innuendo. His handlers had little to win, much to lose by a victory over Carnera. He was allowed to enter the ring after a brief training period of ten days which followed all attack of influenza. The association of these two facts admittedly proves nothing; according to medical advices it had nothing to do with the boxer's death. But it focuses an ugly light on the managerial claim, that "He had to die to prove he wasn...
...Coolidge is one of the most kindly of men and would never deliberately hurt anyone's feelings. Least of all would he attack an individual by innuendo. He had never before been sued and furthermore his experience in public life and with newspapers had taught him what he could expect in the way of publicity if he were to appear in court as a defendant. It would mean taking him away from the privacy which he so much enjoys in Northampton, Mass., and subjecting him to a tremendous amount of limelight for days with constant besieging of reporters...
...innuendo of Mr. Justice Joyce in the case between Chang and The Chinese etc. Co., Ltd. directed at Mr. Hoover as is intimated in the book above mentioned...
...signed disputed agreements covering the transfer of Chinese mines to an English syndicate. According to Justice Joyce, Agent Hoover "went so far as to use various threats" to Chang and "took possession of some of the title deeds of the property by main force." Justice Joyce's innuendo: "It has not been shown to me that his Excellency Chang has been guilty of any breach of faith or of any impropriety at all, which is more than I can say for some of the other parties concerned." In the Strange Career this quotation, like everything else, is spitefully twisted...