Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pained, the A.C.U. retorted that it allowed ads to be placed in pulp magazines because their rates were cheaper, their circulations large and many of their readers puzzle fans. The contest, it insisted, was "moral, ethical, legal, legitimate and proper" and Father Graf had "by implication, smear and innuendo impugned the morals, ethics, motives and intelligence of the council [and] permitted numerous errors and distortions of fact . . . to cloud the issue...
...seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo and insult across the courtroom while character witnesses culled from the bluebooks of two continents spoke up for one claimant or the other. Gloria herself sat through the trial sipping endless glasses of water and watching in bewilderment the storm that blew about her head. "All during that trial...
Then there's the scene when Gene Kelly sings Almost Like Being in Love to Van Johnson. Both had been carrying guns because they were hunters. But when Gene begins to sing, they both forget about their guns and walk away without them. Obvious innuendo: love and death-dealing do not mix. Somewhat like this subtlety is the scene where Gene and Van first sight the town of Brigadoon. They are so excited and hungry that they race away and Gene forgets his hat. Although it is hard to tell just what this means, it is effective...
Whether or not the occurrence was an accident is immaterial to the question at hand. The reader is quite capable of drawing his own inferences from accurately reported facts. To so report is your obligation to the reader's intelligence. Editorial innuendo has no place on the front page. W. F. Palmer...
...million Dixon-Yates plan with Ike and that "it would come as a surprise to me if he had ever known I was [a director of the Southern Co.]." The next day at his press conference, Dwight Eisenhower observed that he had expected political life to subject him to innuendo from many types of strange characters, but that he was astonished by Mitchell's attack on Bob Jones...