Word: peglerizing
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...Post did not gracefully concede this. No Postman took it harder than Max Lerner, a onetime Williams College political science professor who writes like a leftwing Pegler when his theories are crossed. "I recall," wrote Lerner, "a little scene from the Cleveland meeting . . . After the Nixon broadcast and before Eisenhower came on to speak, we watched one of the most curious performances in recent campaign history. George Bender, the chairman . . . called for those who would support [Nixon] and there was an animal roar from the hysterical crowd ... It was like a 'stab-in-the-back' rally...
...Fort Worth, etc. Far from making his papers pale stereotypes of one another, he encouraged local editors to lead their communities, as the Cleveland Press's Louis Seltzer has so notably done. Howard, whose vernacular is as colorful as his rainbow-colored shirts, developed Columnists Heywood Broun, Westbrook Pegler, Ernie Pyle, Robert Ruark, lets Mrs. Roosevelt write as she pleases, even though her views often conflict with...
Ever since William R. Hearst Jr. took command of the family's papers, the chain's columnists have been getting some hard editing and trimming by the boss. Last week Westbrook Pegler, who has seen the blue penciling on the wall, drafted a new set of ground rules for himself and proved he was still master of the humorous, wry style that made him famous before he became a bore. Wrote Pegler...
...great trouble with you, Pegler, is that you write too damn long. You run on and on like a hack driver's dream, bloviating about unions and the Constitution and the income tax, and you forget the white paper has been going up and up and that a newspaper has got to set a table of smorgasbord, with some of this and some of that ... to hold the readers who draw the advertisers who pay your princely stipend. Why don't you write more funny stuff? ... I guess you don't want people to know you still...
...vaudeville stretching his laughs and sweating his bows and keeping the other acts hanging around cracking peanuts or laundering their tights in the basin when it would have been more effective to quit on a loud laugh five minutes sooner . . . The trouble with you, Pegler, is when you have got nothing more to say you say it, and say it, and say it. when the thing to do is to stop right here...