Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concave-eyed and mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...
...however, in saying that Pennsylvania German is a mixture of German, Dutch and English. It is really a congeries of Low German, corrupt High German and (often incorrectly formed) English. There is no Dutch whatever in it, though certainly it is a comical language...
...Snell said he was going to demand a Congressional investigation. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 forbids any corporation to make a political contribution in any Federal election. Either, he thought, the law had been broken (penalty: for corporations $5,000 fine; for their guilty officers, and for political beneficiaries $1,000 fine, a year in jail) or a loophole had been found which needed plugging. Mr. Early wanted it recorded that when the President filled his idle hours writing his name on pieces of paper, he had no notion that they would be sold to corporate bibliophiles...
...assert that I am or was corrupt," the politician stated, "but there was a nasty implication in his words." Commenting on his son's career, he said, "My son was doing well in his class work, and seemed to his father at least to give good promise of one day becoming a successful lawyer." He added that he had advised his son to withdraw from the Law School...
...audience was led last night on a detailed inspection tour of party politics as Murray Seasongood '00, former mayor of Cincinnati, talked informally on "Machine Politics and the Reformer" in Dunster House Common Room. Tracing the city from the 1884-1926 period, which Lincoln Steffins accurately depicted as "unbelievably corrupt," up to the present time, when it is generally conceded to be the "best governed city in the United States", Mr. Seasongood described the long struggle of the past twelve years as a constant warfare against party machinery and party patronage...