Word: smear
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...Republican nominee, called the nation's attention to a few facts about Kansas. Most fun was had by Joe McDonald of Kansas City, blond, high-spirited Democratic leader of the Senate who lately journeyed to Washington to be coached for this occasion by shrewd Democratic Press agent Charles ("Smear Hoover") Michelson. Roaring with laughter and shouting across the chamber as he made his points, Senator McDonald gleefully recalled Nominee Landon's message to the Republican Convention proposing extension of Federal civil service...
...excuse for Hermann E. Thomas' smear of green ice and orange sunset is its title, I Dreamt...
...President Roosevelt with all the vituperative power at his command, David Lawrence, noted Washington correspondent, has charged the Administration with trying to censor his column. When a G. O. P. authority mentioned Lawrence's name among a list of prominent syndicated writers, Charlie Michelson, Democratic hero of the 1932 "smear Hoover" campaign, immediately dubbed him a Republican hireling, and hence unworthy to interpret the news. Resenting Administrative hostility and scenting a plot to strangle independent newsmen, Lawrence has raised a long and justifiable howl...
...Willys, an ex-convict's wife, proceeded to smear make-up over her fat face, show photographers how she had swung a hammer found buried that day in the skull of her 62-year-old dentist lover, Dr. William F. Hammond...
...rear room, which smelled like a shooting gallery, they found a roly-poly little man with wide, blue eyes. He was Otto Biederman, gambler and underworld clown whom Damon Runyon frequently put into his stories under the name of "Regret." Biederman's face was a red smear of holes ind blood. Leaning over the table with one bullet in his belly, was the mussy, 33-year-old German Jew who was the cause...