Word: corruptionist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corruptionist de luxe...
Please leave out a picture on the front cover of TIME soon and substitute therefor an APOLOGY to your readers for having disgraced that space in the issue of April 9 with a reproduction of a likeness of SINCLAIR-corruptionist De Luxe...
...thief in possession of his loot, the highwayman armed with bludgeon and pistol, the firebug with his torch, the burglar with dark lantern and jimmy, and if you were to place with that assembly of rogues the wretch who had corrupted an election, I would unhesitatingly declare the corruptionist the blackest scoundrel of them all. I would so say because the man who attacks the foundations of his Government and thereby assails the very structure of society is the greater criminal, the more intolerable villain, for his criminality poisons the soul of the Nation...
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