Word: slanderer
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...civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness. In 1920, with the aid of the "best people," he got himself elected Governor. So vicious were Huey Long's attacks that Governor Parker sued him for criminal slander, won a conviction. The judge, however, suspended sentence because of "the rashness of youth." Later Huey Long helped that judge on to the State Supreme Court...
...Parke, Davis panel. Director Valentiner retorted that the museum had "invested more taxpayers' money in symbols, emblems and decorations of the Christian faith" than in those of any other religion. But hot criticism continued and last week the Detroit News swept up the whole job as "a slander to Detroit workingmen," advised returning the walls to plain white plaster...
...student in North Carolina, he was known as "the most roaring, rollicking, game-cocking, horse-racing, card-playing, mischievous fellow that ever lived in Salisbury." His mother's parting advice he never forgot: "Andy . . . never tell a lie. nor take what is not your own, nor sue . . . for slander. . . . Settle them cases yourself." Andy settled them, he never sued. When he courted Rachel Donelson Robards, another man's wife, and married her in all innocence before she was technically divorced, the affair became a perennial source of affronts which he was quick to resent. In his famed duel...
Berliners had guffawed for a week at this slander. His presence in Germany apparently aroused Berlin Schupos (police) to order it cut out of The Very Last Minute. Meanwhile slandered Edward, who had paused for only an hour in Hamburg, was winging toward Copenhagen, escorted by four squadrons of Danish Air Force Planes. Ten thousand Danes roared a welcome as he landed at Kastrup, Copenhagen's airport, and was warmly greeted by Crown Prince Frederik, Prince Valdemar (the King of Denmark's uncle) and three of his sons, Prince Erik, Prince Viggo and Prince Axel. Exclaimed Britain's Edward, whose...
...Tony Sender, 43, Reichstag Deputy and member of the Social Democratic party, is one of the best known women politicians in Germany. Recently an opponent referred to her in debate as Die Sexappealische Fräulein. Sex-appeal is a fighting word to Spinster Sender. She immediately sued for slander. Last week three white-cravatted Berlin judges rendered their decision: It is no slander in the German Reich to accuse a lady of possessing sex appeal, "but the expression is infelicitous and not in very good taste...