Word: debauch
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...Debauch...
...have read with the most acute disapprobation an advertisement appearing on p. 31 of TIME, May 24, in which it is suggested that persons who earn a trip to Europe by obtaining subscriptions for TIME may possibly "debauch" themselves "atop Montmartre" when they reach Paris. Permit me to deplore this suggestion and to censure your subscription department for making it with every fibre of my personality...
Over in Irontown ("Arntown") where the teamsters are working, the villagers have their annual religious debauch - a revival. Following local custom, Abner and his mates engage female partners for the whole series of meetings. One night, during a lull in the hysteria, one Tug Beavers temporizes about going to the mourners' bench. That same night he gets a backful of buckshot from Peck Bradley, a murderer out on bail. Religion picks up. Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing...
...course, this ludicrous and flagrant bit of editorial quackery by the News had its ostensible explanation. Death, soon after it had come to the Queen, leveled, after long debauch, an unfortunate and abandoned creature whose story the editors had selected as the feature for an inside spread. Under the obnoxious headline appeared, in tiny type, the clue: Story on page three
This is not a minor indictment. The spirit of play can be ruined quite as easily with cheap heroics as with money, and with consequences in the way of false standards equally harmful to the boys involved. For while bribes and subsidies will debauch the few who play, the do-or-die stuff makes eternal sophomores not only out of the few who play but also out of the many who applaud. What was George F. Babbitt but an eternal sophomore...