Word: slandering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from then on all the cards are in her hands. She whispers to her grandmother that Martha is up to tricks with Karen's fiancé. Old Mrs. Tilford feels bound to tell the parents of other girls. The school goes to pieces, Karen and Martha lose a slander suit, and, in the sudden horror of the situation, Karen begins to wonder if the story might be true. Even when Martha finally proves the lie, it is too late to do much good...
...suppression in southern United States. And the student's acceptance of the scholarship neither entails any obligation to Herr Hanfstaengl nor evinces approval of his character. This scholarship is an opportunity for intimate investigation into the thoughts and customs of Europe; and to construe any other meaning is to slander the student's intelligence. The very purpose of education is to fit the mind for just this sort of impartial investigation. Certainly a Harvard education does not leave the mind so contracted that there is no available space for new ideas, nor so vacant that all unfamiliar conceptions find immediate...
...unprincipled even for the Gallic" besides a quiet slander is an airy generalisation. Here it is necessary to differenciate: the Front Commun has always been pro-League, while the Front National has consistently been anti-League or at least very cold to it and the Front Commun represents over half the electoral body. Please do not speak of "La Belle France" as being on such good terms with Mr. Laval; there is no such a thing as "realistic France", there are so-called realistic Frenchmen and others that are not. In fact I look forward to a decided success...
...poses of genteel poets, the 200-odd austere epitaphs of Spoon River were more than an expression of honest and fruitful defiance. They seemed to prove that the common stuff of U. S. backyard existence, the daily labors, the aspirations, even the graceless material of small-town gossip and slander, could be woven into a poetic pattern that need not lack dignity and significance...
...were Premier Julius Gömbös, onetime Premier Count Stephen Bethlen and Tibor Eckhardt, Hungary's delegate to the League of Nations until four months ago. Lately Count Bethlen in a campaign speech quoted Premier Gömbös against Delegate Eckhardt. Herr Eckhardt screamed slander, sent his seconds to call on the Count. Bethlen apologized, saying that he had merely quoted Gömbös. The seconds went on to the Premier's palace, convinced their man could find a fight somewhere...