Word: debauch
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...notices appended to the time-table was that "Passengers were not allowed to stand on the platform or put their heads out of the window below Debauch Slough--the corporation not wishing to alarm persons who were not patrons of the road...
...cities at least one day a week. But on November 6, by means of an initiative petition, the people of the state were at last able to declare their will. And now, when the Commonwealth permits the city of Boston to decide for itself whether its people shall debauch the Sabbath to the extent of going to see a ball game--the city fathers themselves forbid...
...Black Oxen to The Immortal Marriage of Pericles and Aspasia. But classicism continues to outdo sensationalism, for the new novel concerns a spirited young Athenian who struggled to hold the fickle fancy of his fellow townsmen. Temperamentally he was unfitted for the struggle-one night's drunken debauch culminating in a ribald mock-performance of a religious rite cost him years of exile, to say nothing of his position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced to recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again...
...Think of a government spending nearly $20,000,000 to debauch its youth!" cried Mrs. Alice Foote MacDougall, famed operatrix of tea and coffee shops in Manhattan, in a Plain Talk article...
...possible that Thomas Whelpley experienced the episodes which he described. But to many a newspaperman it seemed clear that in the present debauch of "ghostwriting" a depraved press had gone so far as to persuade a preacher to join the ranks of sporting characters and society women who lie for money...