Word: snerd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most controversial pundit for three decades. As a name caller he had no equal. To be "Peglerized" became almost an honor. To Pegler, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was "little padrone of the Bolsheviki," Walter Winchell a "gents-room journalist," and Henry A. Wallace a "slobbering snerd." His most abiding hatred was for the Roosevelts. Berating F.D.R. and his family in column after column, he termed the President a "feebleminded fiihrer" and found it "regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara hit the wrong man when he shot at Roosevelt in Miami." He waged a vendetta against Eleanor Roosevelt, whom he dismissed...