Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith. The second Col. Theodore Roosevelt lately toured the Midwest, minus his dinnercoat, frothing with expletives, trying to discredit Candidate Smith and Tammany Hall as vicious, grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning shirts, afternoon shirts and silk pajamas instead of nightshirts, all most exquisitely cared for by Robert Abel, English valet, last week set out for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. The theory: the Midwest may think what it has a mind to about Tammany Hall, but what the South thinks...
...smothered the characters their dramatic interest dwindled slightly. The asides were not always accurately and shrewdly handled; the new technique was necessarily a trifle coarse. Rose the inevitable foolish chorus that Nina was a vile female and should never have been written up at all. Some strove to discredit it with the growl that O'Neill had simply taken many findings of the psychoanalysts and copied them into his characters...
Robinson: "We will take a vote on the subject there and find out whether the Senator from Alabama is entitled to discredit millions of good citizens of the United States in the name of the Democratic Party because of their religion...
...expected of Rhodes scholars and too many generalizations are made concerning them. It is an argument that quickly comes down to a question of individuals. If William A. Breyfogle, elected this year from New Hampshire, is an enormous and conceited jackanapes, he will surely be unpopular and a discredit to the U. S. while at Oxford, and a useless citizen, talking through his nose, when he comes back. But if, on the other hand, he is intelligent and sensitive, he will find, clinging to Oxford like the thick leaves along its walls, a glory that is green in every year...
...Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N. retired, said he was so perturbed by the cruiser news from Eng land that he could think of nothing else. He quoted, without naming, a high U. S. official who viewed the British move as a British bluff, an effort to discredit and obstruct the Coolidge program in the 70th Con gress, which meets this week...