Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rulers made fashionable after their May 1961 coup, the prosecutor sent the pair off to Seoul's grim Sodaemun Prison in handcuffs. The news was a shocking disappointment to their fans. "Their immorality only evokes Hollywood," wrote one angry reader to a Seoul paper. "The helplessly corrupt Babylon of moviemaking, we've always thought, was so far away from...
McCann, who defeated Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler in the Nov. 6 general election, told the CRIMSON yesterday that a letter sent out over the signature of John H. Finley, professor of English and Master of Eliot House, charged him with "corrupt" actions...
...letter accused McCann of "leading the forces on Beacon Hill which have sought to do away with the present charter of the City of Cambridge" and thus restore "the old, corrupt ways...
...especially resent the attempt to link me with the old, corrupt ways," McCann said. "I'm hardly old enough to be involved with those days...
...fundamental principle of Cabot life that one never shirked one's duty. He was largely responsible for closing down most of Boston's bawdyhouses, spent his own money to get evidence that led to the disbarment of a few corrupt lawyers and the ouster of a district attorney. He was a leading member of the blue-nosed Watch and Ward Society. As self-appointed judge and jury of the city's morals, the society pounced on the tiniest infractions of "good taste." Playwright Ben Hecht, who used the words "bitch" and "bastard" in one of his plays...