Word: poison-penned
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...wouldn't be so silly as to cancel my subscription, probably because I'm Scotch; but if you must be funny, let's have a joke page and let the rest be facts. There's too much poison-pen stuff from Dorothy Parker and Pegler, without your taking a hand...
...anonymous abuse, she thinks almost nothing of the threatening message that drops from the sleeve of her academic gown. But she remembers it again when a few months later she gets an urgent letter from the dean, begging her help. Shrewsbury College is being undermined by a mysterious poison-pen campaign, and the college morale is getting shaky. Harriet has not been long in residence when the outbreaks increase in violence. Fuses are blown, windows smashed, obscene decorations and threats are chalked on the conventual walls; a dummy is found hanging in the chapel. Unable to get to the bottom...
Beldingsville has apparently become an ideal community, through her min istrations, so it beams upon her now and is "glad" with her. She industrious ly makes bandages and comfort-kits, exposes a woman who has been writing poison-pen letters to send to the sol diers. But meanwhile she never writes Jimmy about her great "secret," for which of course she is "gladder" than ever...