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Word: debauched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flummery | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLING PIGSKIN COMMON | 10/31/1925 | See Source »

Weakened by a long career of debauch the Harvard filth editor were unable to stand against the brilliant open field running of the Crimson nine. At the end of the game Prexy Cooke of the lampoon apologized to President Nichols of the Crimson for the ungentlemanly and unsportsmanlike conduct of his cohorts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON STRATEGY DOWNS LAMPY 23-2 | 5/15/1925 | See Source »

...them, a Prophezzor of history I believe he was told me. "We store these young men's heads with facts. When they leave us they can rattle of all the scandals of the royal household from the time of King Feraburz down to the last imperial debauch. They can speculate in a way that is delightful to hear upon the probable sequences of events if the King's favorite mistress hadn't run away with the Fourth Knight of the Backstairs. In short, I make the Satellites see the collective importance of little things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Persian University Letter No. 2 | 4/17/1925 | See Source »

...companion to a king's debauch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Oct. 20, 1924 | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

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