Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be cut in on the patents to the extent of $250,000. A U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals finally held: ''It is perfectly clear on the whole evidence that [Hall] betrayed his trust by attempting to deceive, intimidate and coerce a wealthy litigant . . . with the corrupt motive of gaining for himself an enormous sum of money without earning...
...accepted their slogan: "The watchword of the time is action." He tried to make himself hard, defiant, intolerant, although inwardly he was uncertain and usually felt sorry for people in trouble. When he speculated about the waste and agony in his mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting world revolution for their own mysterious ends. When the roof leaked and the rain stained his bedroom ceiling, Bengt thought the stain looked like...
...mistress, a huge, handsome, hearty woman who had been picked up in a London brothel only a few years before. It was commonly believed that Lady Hamilton's influence over the Queen was the result of a perverse relationship. The court was one of the most corrupt in Europe. Yet revolutionists like Fernando did little more than repeat scandals about the nobles, fearing the wild, starving, superstitious Neapolitan mobs almost as much as did the aristocrats and the Queen...
...dislike is pressagentry. Marlen Pew also shares with his great friend Roy Wilson Howard a dislike of the American Newspaper Guild, often crosses journalistic swords with the Guild's redoubtable President Heywood Broun. Another Pew bugaboo is the stage reporter. Scornfully cried Editor Pew on one occasion: "The corrupt, cheapskate movie-type reporter may exist, but I do not know...
...governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be any vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." Shays's Rebellion did not horrify Jefferson nearly so much as it did Washington, Said he: "I like a little rebellion now & then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere...