Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily bread. Were he of a Pollyannie nature his writings would not be accepted as holy scripture by numerous intellectuals, both young and old, scattered over the countryside. When one wants sweetness and light there are other sources; but advocates of the devil who can amuse and corrupt as well as Mr. Mencken can, are at a premium. To accuse him of being good-hearted is to attempt to ruin his trade and that the law books say, is Lbel...
...Name the theatre critic who says the Manhattan stage is corrupt...
Tall, blonde, "rangy," handsome editor Carl C. Magee of Albuquerque last week stood his trial for manslaughter. His case had aroused the whole southwest (TIME, Aug. 31). A few years ago he went into New Mexico, began to publish a paper. He began to attack New Mexico's corrupt politics and the crowd of whom Albert B. Fall was one. He was accused of libel and tried before a Judge Leahy, who he openly charged was corrupt. The trial was sensational, a jury was gathered none of whom could speak English. Magee was convicted and sentenced for libel, then...
This explosion was the counterblast to a series of remarks by diplomat Sir Malcolm Delevingne, the British representative. Sir Malcolm, to be sure, had charged -though in the most diplomatic way-that the Chinese government is corrupt, and asserted that the International Anti-Opium Association recently informed him of an instance in which 220 lb. of morphine* was allowed to enter China on permits signed by high Chinese officials...
Subsequently he was elected the President of Poland. He has continued to intermeddle in Polish affairs whenever he considered that "the politicians" as opposed to his beloved "army" were becoming corrupt or inefficient...