Word: slanderer
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...directed the Florence Conservatory. In Florence he lives now in almost ratlike retirement. His wife, a descendant of Stradivarius, is dead. He likes quiet and hates traveling; he was made sorrowful before the War when his enemies, on account of his "revolutionary" music, made him the object of belligerent slander. His most famed work previous to Fra Gherardo was Debora e Jaele, an opera about a Hebrew prophetess in which, as in the more recent work, Pizzetti made frequent use of a crowded stage and made his score the incentive for action rather than its purpose...
Hoover: "I have not the remotest idea, but such a suggestion is grotesque. I wonder, Mr. Chairman, if the committee is not getting down to dealing with a pretty small type of street slander...
Clarence Walker Barron, 72, plump publisher of The Wall Street Journal, was sued for slander for $100,000 by Princess Margaret Ghika of Rumania, now a resident of Manhattan. She claims that Mr. Barron called her "a spy ... a very dangerous woman" at a dinner party at his home in Cohasset, Mass., last August...
...Scandals broke, Governor Smith made Sinclair a racing commissioner with a five-year term. In the 1920 campaign Smith lost. These facts Governor Smith brought out in a blistering letter to Senator Nye, to whom and to Senator Robinson he wished "public humiliation" for reckless statements, "demagogic slander," "infamous insinuations," "outrageous conduct...
TIME prints no slander...