Word: debauch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of a bayonet, a Japanese yen-backed note from the new Japanese-dominated North China Federal Reserve Bank is not honored at face value. Last spring in the Japanese-occupied areas of North China, the Chinese mysteriously forgot to plant their usual cotton crop. Unless the Japanese can debauch the Chinese in captured sectors with opium, as they are trying to do, this sort of passive resistance might go on for decades...
...Walsh practically guaranteed a page one story. What could not be seen at the start was a difference of opinion so bitter that the latter witness said sincerely "I am ashamed to my feet" at the sincere arguments of his former president. Blame for turning the hearing into a debauch of sneers and counter-charges lies on no individual, for once outside the awful walls of the Senate Chamber the impulse to reply to opposition with epithets is strong...
...Economists are still trying to find out what it was that hit us back in 1929. I am not a professional economist but I think I know. What hit us was a decade of debauch, of group selfishness. . . . "Some individuals are never satisfied. People complain to me about the current costs of rebuilding America, about the burden on future generations. I tell them that whereas the deficit of the Federal Government this year is about three billion dollars, the national income of the people of the United States has risen from thirty-five billions in the year 1932 to sixty...
...nothing for Ireland except as a place for sport . . . the rest of the population is drowned in religious and political fanaticism"), sees darker times ahead if mob rule is not broken ("our public life will move from violence to violence, or from violence to apathy, our Parliament disgrace and debauch those that enter it; our men of letters live like outlaws in their own country"). Once, he says, he hoped a party was being formed to which he could give his allegiance, and he wrote some songs for it; but when it went the way of all parties he rewrote...
...will be deplorable if the effeminate Communists are permitted to corrupt their pristine capitalist neighbors. Beginning about a year ago, when he enjoined the cosmetic trust to produce more alluring makeup for Soviet faces, and up to the time of his present debauch under the Moscow streets, Josef Stalin has shown the road to oblivion. It is highly possible that New Yorkers and Bostonians, seduced by the luxurious existence of their Russian cousins, will soon demand silkier face-powder, more tantalizing lipstick, or even a marble subway with messics! The world must unite to save capitalism from this degrading Communist...