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Word: slanderer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that when I want a burglar I will send to his State for a recommendation." The Missouri Reed intends to continue the activities of his committee, to seize, but not open, ballot boxes in four more Pennsylvania counties. After he finishes defending Henry Ford in a $1,000,000 slander suit, he will assemble his committee to decide on its future course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bad-Natured End | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Last week the High Court at Weimar found Herr Graefe guilty of malicious slander, sentenced him to three months in jail. Indignant friends of Dr. Stresemann explained once again that his wife has a rich bachelor brother who delights to open his purse and let Frau Stresemann entertain herself, her friends, Dr. Stresemann's friends, at lavish semi-official functions quite beyond the Stresemann means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Graefe Strafed | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Because you slander a dead man, you are a coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gladstone's Seraglio | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...number of books returned will supply amusing evidence as to the power of anonymity. If "Whispering Gallerys" come back in large quantities one may assume that the public is interested only in that slander which has claim to authenticity. On the other hand if the returns are small the indication will be that human nature considers a whispering gallery to be an instructive body even though, its members be blind, deaf, and as far as real facts are concerned--dumb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GENTLEMAN WITH AN ASHCAN | 11/23/1926 | See Source »

...just grow" a In Harriet Beecher Stowe, but was designed by an architect, one no less than Mr. H. Craig Severance, who appears to be extremely sensitive to derogatory remarks about his work. At any rate he believes that the New Yorker should pay him $500,000 for the slander to his professional name and so firm is his belief that he has taken the matter to court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HONOR OF THE ARCHITECT | 11/17/1926 | See Source »

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