Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complete a sentence ... for one of the most despicable, filthy offenses of which a man can be found guilty. . . . There is something decidedly rotten when this sort of thing continues indefinitely. . . . The public . . . is beginning to understand what this rotten thing is: THE BRAZENLY ACKNOWLEDGED ALLIANCE BETWEEN CRIMINALS AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS...
...indecently sharp-eyed and entertaining, as wholes they are poor in ratio to their seriousness, good in ratio to their snottiness. Best: misadventures of a gentle English celebrity who, lassoed into a Long Island week end of guaranteed peace & quiet, finds himself the agonized vortex of a Walpurgisnacht of corrupt artists, moneymen, scrimmaging Lesbians, carnivorous wives and dowagers. Their favorite adjective: "genuine...