Word: debauched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Almost every possible program for saving the franc has been presented to it, and has been rejected on grounds of petty local politics. The Deputies have refused to vote adequate taxes, or to ratify either the Franco-British or the Franco-U. S. debt settlements. Amid this carnival, this debauch of legislative folly, the franc has lost two-thirds of its value within a year...
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...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...
TIME'S advertising copywriter prudently employed quotation marks around the verb "debauch," thereby earmarking his use of it in a playful holiday spirit, well suited to the mood of vacationists able to see their sights or leave them alone as Subscriber Robinn advises...
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...