Word: decayed
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Wolfe wrote the play while he was doing graduate work here in Professor George Pierce Baker's "Forty-seven Workshop," and before he achieved fame as a novelist. The play presents the rise and decay of a Southern family during the Civil War period. It is an eloquent plea for the cause of the ex-soldier of that...
...Tennessee will illustrate to New England, by its hell-for-leather manner of flay, the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvard and Dartmouths and Browns here in a corner of the country where college football players are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs." November...
Some stages in history seem to resemble periods in the lives of individuals. As an individual is Born, grows and dies, so do societies undergo a similar cycle of birth, florescence and decay. And, like different individuals, different societies are charged with varying amounts of enthusiasm, moral fervor, faith in progress and the ultimate rightness of things --a conglomerate of moral values commonly designated by the inexact term, "idealism...
...with salt, especially his cloying, new-found love of suffering humanity, his suspiciously detailed and too melodramatic recital of fast-moving events. But whatever their worth as history, these tenuously connected yarns have the quality of horrible legends recited against the feverish background of Europe's moral decay...
...words may have quickened the affection of men for F.D.R., but they did not quicken the hopes of his fellow Democrats. From Poughkeepsie, Jim Mead plodded on through the last days of his all but lost campaign. All around him lay the decay of the once-great organization which had kept the Democrats in control for 14 years...