Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough baseball father, pulled up the shade on the years to let the sunshine of the Bambino's rollicking history pour through the room of his tree-shrouded Rye home as he abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed a baseball for him, a gift that helped him win his bride 26 years...
...that this capture had taken place. The U.S. people, most of whom would vote as Republicans or Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...
...last the Communist New York Daily Worker's Rob F. Hall went to the rescue by asking Wallace to discuss "progressive capitalism." After that, wrote Pegler, "the incident dissolved in a cloud of Oriental incense and a faint, distant tinkle of Chinese gongs...
...never engage in any discussion whatsoever with Westbrook Pegler,' Bubblehead* replied...
...Stooge? Pegler sat down. All the correspondents had agreed to ask only one question apiece. To three others who also put the Gurusome question Wallace snapped: "I never engage in a discussion with a stooge of Westbrook Pegler." Finally a watery-eyed oldster got up. "My name is Mencken, H. L.," he announced. "Will you call me a stooge of Pegler...