Word: smear
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...Nanty Glo Journal had gone to press for the week. Publisher Herman Sedloff, musing in his doorway, watched a coal-dusty dog skirt a puddle, saw that the color in the Red Cross flag hanging above the middle of the street had run into a dripping, pinkish smear...
...Illinois, U.S. Congressman (1906-11), longtime Republican leader; in Tucson. Born in a log cabin, a blacksmith's son, a lifetime farmer, he was heavy Presidential timber after his economy-&-reform administration of Illinois, but lost the nomination to Warren Harding as a result of a last-minute smear involving campaign expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Harding offered...
...Quick to deny this charge was Joseph Edwin Curran, boss of the National Maritime Union, which up till recently controlled with an iron hand almost all sailors operating out of East Coast ports and some operating out of West Coast ports as well. Said Curran: "The report is a smear campaign...
...grins would have become cheers had the troops known what scrub-headed General Kenney was saying at that moment: "Good, Whitey! Let's smear 'em tomorrow...
...Aldrich of Leverett is one of the most outstanding ends to play in the House league for a long time. In game after game he caught passes and hit hard on tackles to jar opposing ball carriers into costly fumbles or smear them behind the line of scrimmage. In the Bunnies' first game of the season, against Lowell, Aldrich accounted for all eight Leverett points by catching a touchdown pass and dropping a Bellboy in the end zone for a safety...