Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process cannot go on and will be gradually undermined if men can be put on the witness stand without protection of counsel and without any adequate opportunity to answer. There is no more cruel way to destroy the reputation of a man than by publicity, by inference and by innuendo...
...from the bishop. He denounced the "scandal mongers [who] have spoken of me as though my sole friends are publicans and sinners. That is, I am proud to say, true! I have no friends so self-respecting that they are in need of no repentance. . . . Why whisper and use . . . innuendo! Why not be forthright and say, as I frankly say ... that Mrs. Ablewhite and I have been at the Chez Paree, which we have enjoyed, and to other restaurants where shows have been as good or not as good. It is no crime to eat and drink for enjoyment...
...also feel that your reference to Northwest Airlines in the story is wholly unjustified. In cases of this kind why don't you just report the crash and not by innuendo damage equipment which is giving millions of miles of satisfactory service every day all over the world...
...TIME intended no innuendo, meant just what it said: that the Braniff Airways crash (a Douglas plane) and the Northwest Airlines crash (a Lockheed) were outstanding cases of mechanical failure...
Ventriloquism was never a radio art. It still isn't. But thoroughly part of radio art is Bergen's clever line, for which his alma mater, Northwestern University, in 1937 awarded Charlie the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. An assistance also is the fact that Charlie's person, due to his vast press, is almost as well known to radio listeners as his sage, snide, bored voice. Charlie and Bergen collect $100,000 a year from the sale of dolls, gadgets, silverware and other copies of cocky Charlie...