Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morals on trial under Massachusetts censorship law, "Forever Amber" found a stout defender yesterday in the person of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who stated that the book did not "corrupt or deprave" him. Appearing as star witness for the defense in the current trial of Kathleen Winsor's risque best-seller, Professor Jones testified that the book "bored" his wife, and left his own moral standards unsullied...
...corrupt or deprave...
...official Filipino palms complained that they could not purchase any of the $600 million in U.S.-donated surplus property. Many a postoffice mail sorter called upon business houses for "remembrances," saying, "You know your mail passes through my hands." Said cynical Interior Secretary Jose Zulueta, who saw more of corrupt Manila than of the less civilized but more honest interior: "There is no such thing as honesty nowadays...
Charles threw himself into a reform movement which overturned the city's ancient and corrupt political machine. Robert, after a gentleman's administration of Cincinnati had been established, aligned himself with the regular G.O.P. He and Martha remodeled a rambling house on Indian Hill. He promoted the Cincinnati Symphony, founded by his mother, and planned and raised the funds to turn Uncle Charles' mansion into a museum housing Rembrandts, Van Dycks and other paintings of a more settled pre-impressionist...
...parted with least wisely, for it has found nothing at all compensating, is most of the hardboiled, high-flying satire of The Beggar's Opera. Gay ripped open the underworld of his time to reveal its dissoluteness and dog-eat-dog love of lucre; but he had a corrupt great world equally in mind, even satirizing Prime Minister Robert Walpole. And Gay made his bawds and fences, his cutpurses and stool pigeons part of a pungent, roaring scene...