Word: innuendoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...