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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Die Sitzung | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...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 »

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