Word: badness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best news of the day came when it was revealed that Captain Torbie Macdonald was certain to see action against New Hampshire Saturday. But for a bad case of indigestion he would have played last Saturday. He is now off the doctor's list and showed a lot of zip in signal drills...
...taste to be the taste of the Harvard students. The subsequent outcry must have certainly raised some doubts in Mr. Greene's mind. And the collective action of the student body through its various organizations would certainly help Mr. Greene clear his mind on the question of good or bad taste. Consequently we think that Mr. Greene should rescind his denial of a hall and, by doing so, he will certainly show the good taste of a gentleman. For the Harvard Socialist League, Richard Pitts '41, President...
...seems to me that the suggested word "hitler" savors too much of yielding, because of temporary emotion, to the childish impulse to "call names.". . . If I want to do something along that line, why not incorporate the word "Munich," using it to signify "a bloodless coup achieved by bad faith, trickery and deceit...
From Independence, Iowa, on the Wapsipinicon River, Harry Ervin Yarnell went to Annapolis in 1893, and started his career in the U. S. Navy. It was his luck, good or bad, to be assigned to the Orient. He saw the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Rebellion, subsequently much of the world from the deck of U. S. warships...
...days later, after Representative John McCormack of Boston had demanded the recall from Moscow of U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt, Franklin Roosevelt remarked softly that bad manners should never beget bad manners...