The rumors about Anderson nevertheless placed Glasgow in an untenable social position, for close friends either suspected or knew of their engagement.

I was called a buffoon in the paper of record, the New York Times, and the Washington Post described me fondly as Clinton's gunsel, his button man

2008, B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture (University of West Indies Press), page 328:

Each slight sore mattereth.