Word: slander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end he blandly approved "liquidation of the Chungking regime"-something 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers have spent two-and-one-half years trying to accomplish; and ordered Chinese "men in the field to cease hostilities immediately." He accused the U. S. of a "calculated campaign of slander," and complained that U. S. diplomats (presumably Sumner Welles and aides) were "dodging from capital to capital" organizing international opinion against...
...Foul Slander...
...Since when has your Music editor written your book reviews? In the March 4th issue, under Music (Bach and Boogie-Woogie), he writes of Elliot Paul and makes the remark that he is the author of one good book, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town. Oh foul slander! Has he never heard of Mr. Paul's Concert Pitch, the best damn musical novel I ever read? As an author myself I don't like to see this - Poet Christopher Darlington Morley is not even eligible for membership.-ED. slipping of your department editors into the wrong...
Comic Fred Allen's self-written weekly scripts are regularly combed for libel, slander, offense to tender sensibilities. But now & then, despite radio's stout guarding, Allen manages to sink a punch line into some touchy solar plexus. He has never been sued for anything he has said on the air, but this season he has set a-storming: 1) Philadelphia's hotelkeepers, because of a crack about the size and appointments of Philadelphia hotel rooms; 2) the drug-store trade, over a yarn about a would-be pharmacist who "flunked in chow mein...