Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide-open town. She furnished bail by the gross to bookmakers and prostitutes, kept a taxi waiting at the door to whisk them out of jail and back to work. But she was also a catalyst that brought underworld and police department into an inevitably corrupt amalgam. At her retirement the San Francisco Chronicle waxed nostalgic: "The Old Lady . . . will take to her rocking chair, draw her shawl about her. . . ." But many a citizen thought simply: "Good riddance...
Last week the press and one lawyer put the State of Missouri to shame. When the Legislature finally adjourned, they made it plain that the last legislative session was the worst, dirtiest, most brazenly corrupt in Missouri history...
...brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about marijuana. Send Me Down, in its own scale, is a likable enough performance. But it is scarcely adequate to its subject...
...right scent, but he failed to tell us anything about his authority for the quotation. Crabbed, although highly interesting, John Randolph of Roanoke shot it at Henry ("Mill-boy of the Slashes") Clay. His exact language seems to be in dispute. Bartlett puts it: "So brilliant, yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." Personally one better likes the version employed in the life of Randolph, in The American Statesmen series of biographies: "Like a mackerel in the moonlight, he shined and stank...
...Army, Correspondent Davis reported on its bankruptcy by telling how Roberto Farinacci's Fascist Party plotters undercut the Old Guard and ousted Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Correspondent Whitaker added: "The Fascists have deliberately spread lies about the corruption of Badoglio. He isn't corrupt. He is merely a very old man. . . . Graziani is a sick man, suffering, perhaps, from cancer of the throat...