Word: slanderer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidium formally ousted M. Trotzky, explaining its action as follows: "The presidium deems Trotzky's and Vuyovitch's remaining in the Communist International impossible because of their violent struggle against the organization by means of underground printing plants coupled with organizing illegal centers and inciting malicious slander against Soviet Russia abroad. To preserve unity in Lenin ranks, to counteract the undermining activities of the oppositionist rebels, considering previous warnings sufficient and that to further refrain from disciplinary measures becomes dangerous and impossible, the presidium of the Communist International unanimously decided to expel Trotzky and Vuyovitch from the Communist...
...Associated Negro Press release did contain a "stick" (two or three inches of type) on "The Flying Fool" (Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh). A major point made (erroneously) in this item was: "We trust that the cat which flew with him is a BLACK CAT, to wipe out the historic slander against that innocent an-imal." Captain Lindbergh took no cat with...
...regrettable indeed that a lady of her apparent intelligence classifies our State as one "where 'Graft' runs wild," and in my despair at reading such slander hurled against our noble commonwealth, I see a ray of probable sunlight, that I glean from the very beginning of her second paragraph, in which she states something about changing her residence, and I sincerely hope that she will cross the. State line, be it east, west, north or south, when she makes that change, as the State of New Jersey will be well rid of such...
...Gossipy Sex. A Stamford (Conn.) audience advised Producer John Golden to take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet. Unfortunately the shot misses. Actor Lynne Overman burlesqued his role of wag-tongue -which is about all that could be done with...
...member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenancière into English as "madame." Tenancière, he protested, meant a woman who kept disorderly premises; and madame is the ordinary title of married Frenchwomen. Tiems! Did the Committee propose to slander at one stroke all the honest wives of France...