Word: peglerizing
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...likes to dance the polka with the Polish girls and join in singing "the old songs" at political rallies. Bush was opposed by starchy Vivien Kellems, a Stonington manufacturer, one of the few Americans who is far enough to the right to be considered patriotic by Westbrook Pegler. Vivien stopped the roll call when it reached 27 for her, 187 for Pres Bush...
After disregarding one court order to appear for questioning, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler turned up to talk things over with Quentin Reynolds' lawyer. Free-lance Writer Reynolds had brought a $500,000 libel suit (TIME, Dec. 12) against Pegler for calling him, among other things, a "fourflusher" and a "nudist...
...Only Defense. Mrs. McCullough, cheered on by Society Columnist Igor Cassini ("Cholly Knickerbocker" of the New York Journal-American), Columnists George Sokolsky, Westbrook Pegler, Bill Cunningham and Radiorator Fulton Lewis Jr., and backed by some $28,000 (mostly in small bills) from thousands of sympathizers, had made the only defense she could: that her charge of pro-Communism against Adler and Draper was the truth...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler predicted that the present literary scene "might fairly be labeled by critics in the future, the golden age of garbage." Anyway, said Pegler, who used to be a good reporter himself, and careful of his facts, "fiction is a cowardly medium. The fictioneer needn't defend his position or accept the responsibility for the harm he does...
Caught up, Pegler retracted his error with a sleight-of-hand pass designed to be quicker than readers' eyes. ("Only recently [I] caught myself in the mistaken belief that Rufus Bullock . . . was the great-grandfather of the Empress Eleanor.") In doing so, he pulled another mudball out of his hat. Demanded Pegler, with the air of a man getting to the heart of the matter: "But who, then, was Rufus the rogue? What...