Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These young people!" muttered dignified Japanese gentlemen. ''Such bad taste! Such vulgarity...
...When America falls from the fiftysixth story of the Woolworth Building, there will be a bad crash," declared Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the famous Russian philosopher, now lecturing in this country...
Wonder if I could do it with a paper cup. Yeah, a paper cup. Steady. Whoops! There, easy as anything. Look out. That's too bad. Lucky you got on the old topcoat, Bill. Sure, that'll come out all right. If it doesn't take it over to the Chem lab. Sure they will. They teach you how in Chem A. Ever take that, Bill? Yes, over in Boylston. When we were Freshmen. We used to make salt, too. Twenty-five grams impure they gave you. No, they don't test your stuff. I got nine grams yield...
Hockenbeamer. More characteristically, western, perhaps, is August Hockenbeamer, president of Pacific Gas & Electric. A onetime newspaper boy, his commercial career includes a period of collecting bad bills for a book store and of filling lamps in Pennsylvania R. R. offices. Mr. Hockenbeamer works incessantly, golfs indifferently, smokes continually (large, strong cigars). He was an originator of the idea that the general public should be invited to hold stocks in utilities. In 1914 Pacific Gas & Electric had 3,000 stockholders. It has some 50,000 today...
...Good, Bad. It should be noticed that even Mr. Hollister distinguishes between the good testimonial (unpaid for, voluntary) and the bad testimonial (bought, solicited). It is difficult to see how any publisher can question the advertiser's word concerning the legitimacy of testimonials and it is even more difficult to imagine how the reading public can tell whether a testimonial represents a donation or a purchase. From the standpoint of popular faith in advertising it would appear that one rotten testimonial apple would corrupt the entire barrel and that the distinction between good and bad testimonials will become...