Word: poison-penned
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...Carabiniere. Until she died last winter, Renata Tebaldi's mother accompanied her on all her tours, acted so effectively as a backstage buffer for her daughter that fellow singers affectionately nicknamed her "The Carabiniere." She handled Renata's mail (weeding out the occasional poison-pen letters from over-zealous Callas fans), took care of her clothes and costumes, stationed herself in the wings to minister to Renata with a Thermos jug of warm tea and an emergency flask of brandy when she came offstage. She was quick to resent any affronts to her daughter. Backstage lore...
When he landed at New York's Idlewild Airport, a woman from his publisher's office met him with a copy of the unsigned, poison-pen letter-neatly typed, grammatically written and essentially correct. "Harry Golden," it said, "is an ex-convict" who once ran a stock-racketeering Manhattan "bucket shop." Barrel-shaped, cigar-chewing Harry Golden smiled long and thoughtfully. "I've been expecting it for some time," said...
Despite his crudities. Faye has eight TV sponsors, because he can assure them of a good-sized audience. His mail is chiefly the poison-pen type: "Die! Die! Die!" urged one letter writer last week. Said another: "You are a splendid example of the fact that in order to have free speech we must tolerate its abuse by idiots." In a recent charity appearance before 62,500 people at Soldier Field, Faye fans pelted him with coins, ice cream, paper cups and jeers. Grabbing a microphone, he bellowed: "I want you to know that whatever you think...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...
Tragedy and exposure force his hand. Dinah gets pregnant and has a stillbirth. A poison-pen letter informs Madeleine of her husband's adulterous affair. Rickie promises not to see Dinah again, a promise he soon finds he cannot keep. When Madeleine turns down his halfhearted divorce plea, Rickie decides to run away with Dinah, but an attack of ulcers changes that plan. When he finally gets on his feet again. Dinah has drifted away from him, towards drink and the arms of another lover. Though she puts a "good face" on their patched-up marriage, Madeleine soon tosses...