Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the Lundberg book, the Seldes book rambles, relies heavily on innuendo. It contains a large store of previously published facts, many a windy, publisher-baiting tirade. Mr. Ickes found considerable ammunition in it. Author Seldes, said Biologist Pearl last week, wrote him several times to find out about the "suppression" of his tobacco study, was told there was no suppression-yet indicated in Lords of the Press that the story had been suppressed...
...second ranking U. S. tennist. He had passed up the Newport tournament, last major tune-up before the U. S. championships, in order to scout the Australians. For cocky young Bobby Riggs, who has won 14 U. S. tournaments this year, was smarting under Don Budge's recent innuendo (that, if he were chosen for the Davis Cup team, he would probably lose both his singles matches...
...several loans to me during the years 1935 and 1936, prior to the time when it was within any possible contemplation that he would ever be the recipient of any State contract. These loans have been reduced ... to the sum of $6,000. ... I deny Wilson's malicious innuendo that there has been favoritism...
Dean Ralph Dennis of Northwestern University's School of Speech awarded to Charlie McCarthy, No. i U. S. dummy, the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. The citation: "He is ... a prince of parasites, violent in company, churlish in behaviour, acid in conversation, wooden-faced in all relationships, and in all other aspects a typical product of higher learning in America...
...barged in on drawing-room Buchmanism abroad, and has returned to bring this grand new message of the inspirational values of open confession straight from the horse mouth of one Lady Wiggam to her own circle of friends. In one week end of sustained busybodying, Susan manages, by artful innuendo and a few lucky potshots, to disrupt the placidly illicit love life of her hostess, turn a well adjusted May-December marriage into a triangular mess...