Word: smear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four Senators quickly cleansed their names of the Hearstian smear, in downright statements. Senator Heflin was most agitated. He roared about "scalawags, crooks and scoundrels." In the course of his protestimony he was obliged to tell about receiving money from the Ku Klux Klan for his anti-Roman Catholic orations...
...Burns emerged when, as Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice under Harry Micajah Daugherty (1921-24), he was quizzed by Senate investigators about the use of one of the Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to "smear" Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the oil scandal investigators; and about an alleged conspiracy with Mr. Daugherty to permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan Piske...
...trunk. A man was kneeling by the bed, .his hands stiffly and desperately twisted together, his head pushed down against his arms. He did not say anything when the three people came into the room. The policeman touched him, shook him a little, then saw the smear of blood that ran down his cheek from a hole in his temple. "I guess he bumped himself off," said the policeman, "I'll have to have his name." "Orbes," the manager told him, "Marceline Orbes...
Twenty years ago the policeman would not have had to ask how to spell "Marceline." He would have been accustomed to seeing it in big shiny letters over the entrance to the Hippodrome, biggest Manhattan theatre. The little, inexpressive brown face with the smear of blood would have reminded him of another face, with the same features, set in a foolish pointed smile. He would have recognized the dusty, madly tailored evening clothes that Marceline had taken out of his trunk before he killed himself, as the uniform of the most famous clown since the days of Grimaldi...
...loudest roar in the Roaring Forties," and too much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...