Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Thomas is out of step with the American public. The man who once saw American life and its foibles clearly has become blinded by passion to the majority mind of the nation. He is turning the stage into a wet pulpit from which to slander lawmakers, officials and his fellow citizens...
...chew if they wanted to. He cultivated, however, a taste for wine and a proficiency of tact worthy of one of the scrupulous courtiers of Louis IV. Once an employe who had been accused of excessive drinking came to him while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face...