Word: obloquy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added: "It is a portrait which everyone informed about the situation in Cuba knows to be fantastically remote from the truth." The advertising director of the New York Times, in a confidential memorandum to his staff, which was picked up and reprinted by the Guild Reporter, recognized the moral obloquy involved in Section XII, also reported that publishers "protesting against the section are doing so on the principle . . . that paid-for news propaganda must not be included as legitimate advertising in figures sent to advertisers and agencies." Even the conservative Editor & Publisher warned that "the whole enterprise comes perilously close...
Compared to the shame which heaped upon Tennessee when its laws were found Dowerless to prevent child marriages (TIME, Feb. 15),* a domestic relations case up last week in California brought obloquy far deeper & darker. The story reminded newsreaders of the powerful poetry of California's Robinson Jeffers, whose plots of incest the polite public shrinks from as wilful departures from reality...
...that occasion when the news reached Washington Mr. Garner was already asleep as usual in his apartment at the Hotel Washington. Unable to awake him because of the strict precautions he takes not to have his rest disturbed after 9 p.m., his friends, to save him from public obloquy, gave the Press a statement bearing his name, expressing his horror. Not until next morning did Mr. Garner hear the news. In all innocence he wired Franklin Roosevelt that he had not heard of the attempt upon his life until that moment. †The timid, fumbling, impotent Vice President, as played...
...public issue of any consequence was involved. No principle was at stake. No precedent was established. No scandal was exposed. Yet the man-in-the-street watched and listened with the same fascination that would make him pause to witness a dog fight. When the fusillade of vilification, obloquy, traducement and backbiting ceased, the chief result seemed to be that Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long had received the most thundering mass of publicity that had come to him in his whole lively career...
...bitter and contemptuous accusations of disloyalty and cowardice heaped upon them by the public and friends alike. If war comes again, there will be a greater number of resisters than in 1917. But what influence will they have? How many will stand firm in the face of the obloquy they are almost certain to have to endure? The answer depends upon a hundred variables. But the experience of 1917 throws some light on the hypothetical situation, and one of the main contributions of "Taps" lies in its vivid picture of the frenzied, gullible, and fanatically intolerant state of mind...