Word: slanderer
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...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...
...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...
Deputy Estay cried: "Chile must repudiate the slander...
...called me a bore! How am I going to make my living as an after dinner speaker if I am slandered by being called a bore? I have started suit in London against Mr. H. G. Wells for $50,000 on a charge of slander. I will not submit to being called a bore...
...days when U. S. journalism was young and yellow, newspapermen often quarreled violently and in public. One editor would refer to his colleague as "that scurrile cur, that . . . slander-monger Drennelthorpe, of the Courier Gazette . . . whereupon Mr. Drennelthorpe would visit the writer with a bowie knife and a hickory cudgel. Every reporter was trained to use a shotgun, and in most composing rooms a portrait of Andrew Jackson looked down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they...