Word: decay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...historic and beautiful Palace of Versailles is in a state of decay and the marvelous fountains are breaking down...
...gangrenous decay...
...College of William and Mary. Virginia, a recent lecturer on representative government compared the present day United States to classical Greece in the age of the decay. He declared that George Washington, alive today, would receive less attention than JackDempsey; that all of us, crazed by novelty and sensation, are undervaluing the things worth while in overestimating non-essentials...
...lawlessness, the sensationalism, and the theatricality of the present may not be encouraging, but they are not evidences of national decay. The world is still shaky from the effects of the war; but it certainly is not standing on its head. It does not help in the recovery to call up all the symptoms of temporary relapse. As the Hooster farmer remarked to his assistant on the two man saw, "I don't mind you're riding on it, Jim, but I wish you wouldn't drag your feet...
...mixed clientele. Their food was reputed to be the best, but to judge from the handful of coins found near them, the prices corresponded. The student societies, which I have discovered elsewhere, also had their living rooms, but most of these have been found in an unrecognizable condition of decay...