Word: cesspool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good German beer, Angoff suggests, Mencken thrived on prejudices. His private league of nations included the American "boobeoisie," the "bloody English," the "stinking frogs," the "dirty wops" and the "Irish monkeys." New Hampshire and Vermont were "the varicose veins of New England," and New York was "a sewer, a cesspool, a garbage can . . . the hickest of all hick towns." Of U.S. Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson. "You know what I think of Hoover. Turn him upside down, and he looks the same." As for the Roosevelts, Teddy "had the manners of a saloon bouncer...
...child have been killed back in Germany, orders a senseless attack. Revenge, he hopes, will help his private anguish. But in the end, most are beyond revenge or anguish. At first this seems just another war novel beginning with "knavery rubbing elbows with horror in this louse-ridden cesspool under the hill of death." Slowly, the reader comes to know through Ledig's prose, which shows its simple structure like a field-stripped carbine, why this book has been bought in tens of thousands by Germans. There are few names, and even the scene is one of those anonymous...
...when the binge ended at dawn, the diplomats, driving home, saw the corpses of the entire opposition leadership hanging in the square. With Ankara under his heel, Ataturk toured country districts announcing that Islam "is a dead and finished thing." Returning suddenly after eight years' absence to "that cesspool" Istanbul, he summoned notables to a grand ball. Before the band played a note, Ataturk himself stepped, chalk in hand, to a blackboard and for four hours lectured the jaded heirs of the Ottomans on the new, latinized language he had ordained for the republic...
...spare time, now puts that vestigial American male through his paces during a vacation. The summer house, on an island off New England, has been rented sight unseen and looks it. but Mr. Hobbs is brave in the face of basketwork furniture, a recalcitrant pump and a cesspool that backfires...
...Under Home Entertaining: "If you have a septic tank or cesspool, you need to explain [to house guests] that . . . facial tissues . . . should not be thrown into the toilet bowl...