blackballing

A blackballing is a disappointment, and should be a rare event in a congenial club where advance notice of candidates is given to members.

J. Pierpont Morgan and other Union members were outraged by the blackballing of several of their friends.

There'll be no reprimands, no censure, no blackballing.

Whether because of the blackballing or my impressive list of unaccomplishments I do not know, but he cut me in Calcutta next time I saw him.

While I hope many of your readers have had the opportunity to read the e-mail version of Tim's (the student's) article, Lewis is completely wrong about the blackballing.

"The filtering out of conservatives in the job pipeline rarely works by outright blackballing," said Mark Bauerlein, a conservative who is an English professor at Emory.

Waal), vehemently protested the blackballing of Reich from the International Psychoanalytical Association (I.P.V.).

In Alabama, a spokesman for Governor Siegelman denied that Mr. Curran's aggressive coverage of the administration had played any role in his blackballing.

Meantime, I suggest that my penchants, your blackballing and the fact that van Rees is at the present moment probably entering French air space are not quite of primary importance.

There is a tradition that what prompted the foundation of the Club was the blackballing of William Burton Conyngham at Daly's Club in Dame Street.

A Labor member of Parliament, Frank Field, another lay Synod member, said Dr. Bennett was "an example of the blackballing" of conservative theologians by "the Runcie group."

The club dates from 1891, when J. Pierpont Morgan, angered by the blackballing of a business associate by the Union Club, asked a few friends to join him in founding what became known as the "millionaire's club."

The rest of the guest list does not seem to have been screened for undesirable traits - much less required to submit to the social blackballing of their spouses - because one guest throws up at the reception, and another smashes a vase.

And some Cuban-Americans, like Ramon Cernuda, a book publisher, argue that the current blackballing is at the instigation "of a few right-wing extremists who presume to impose censorship, damaging even more the image of Cuban exiles in the eyes of the country at large."

In 1787, the blackballing of William Burton Conyngham from political motives led to an exodus of members from Daly's, who in the shape of the Kildare Street Club formed a new club which soon rivalled Daly's as a fashionable haunt.

Less the victim of any blackballing and more the recipient of a bill from Father Time, Owens showed in an October workout attended by no NFL teams that six months after knee surgery, he possessed very little of the burst needed to play his position at the highest level.