Word: smear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Hincks was sternly critical of the Government's presentation as an attempt to "pollute the stream of justice." He accused the Government's attorney of trying to "smear an honest officer" in cross-examining a State police sergeant. He objected to the Government's lengthy charge that the defense had suppressed evidence without offering "a shred of support for the charge." But particularly annoying to the handsome, greying judge was the Government's plea to the jury to ignore the Court's charge. "[A judge] may fall into error," said Judge Hincks...
...bushy, grey Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write all the good speeches for the President, his Cabinet...
Some experts believe that the enemy would be content to smear parts of New York with mustard and Lewisite. Mustard gas is not hard to neutralize (chloride of lime) but it is hard to find and hangs on for a long time. Without protective clothing it would be dangerous for civilians to venture into the streets, and the enemy would presumably be content with the resultant paralysis of the city...
...eight, slips over an ice-cold floor on ice-cold feet to his open window and bangs it shut. a front clings to his whiskers as he hacks at them desperately with an ice-cold razor. A nick under his chin bleeds and makes a smear on the collar of his newly-laundered best pink shirt. But the dauntless Vagabond is out of his Attic by eight-thirty and down to the Dining Room to breakfast...
...last week did the press smoke out of its files a two-year-old secret about Elliott Roosevelt's scheme to sell airplanes to Russia. Even then, Chairman Nye, one of the Senate's smartest hands at investigation publicity, loudly deplored the disclosure as "an attempt to smear the President" and as "not designed for any honest and constructive purpose." Nevertheless, the same public that had watched this North Dakotan "smear" the President's enemies now had a glimpse at the way a President's son may plan to make some quick money...