Word: smirch
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Said Lieut. Edward Graeb, called in from the Juvenile Bureau: "We do not intend to smirch the reputations of the high-school girls, most of whom are of prominent families." But another police official snapped: "The boys all came through like little gentlemen and told the truth. But the babes [girls] lied faster than a horse can trot. Honest, we never saw such fibbers...
...against a Yale team which has a total of 127 points amassed to 13 for their opponents, Crimson adherents point to a victory over Exeter, the only team to smirch the Eli scutcheon. And today Stahley will abandon his system of playing his men as units of eleven men, and will keep his eleven best on the field at all times in an attempt to bring the decision into the Harvard camp...
...cherished and advertised tradition of the Scripps-Howard newspapers includes youthful editors & managers, vigorous liberalism, fearless honesty. Newsreaders were shocked last week to read testimony which, if true, would smirch Scripps-Howard with one of the lowest tricks in the newspaper business-padding circulation figures. The scene was the trial, for fraud, of four officials of Scripps-Howard's Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram. Facts: In October 1931, the Telegram declared its average circulation for the previous six months to be 35,610. Audit Bureau of Circulation investigated, found the figure too high. The Telegram made its own investigation, removed...
...Crimson oarsmen, rowing again a week after their defeat at the hands of Navy and Tech, will have some chance in the Lake Cayuga regatta to atone for the only smirch on their short season's record. Their race on Saturday will be over a two-mile course, one a quarter of a mile longer than that in the Basin...
...over the room would thus make it impossible for his roommates to overlook the fact that he had been to a party. When he arose at noon he would regale them with wondrous tales of his experiences. But he never could understand his roommates,--that was the one smirch on his college life...