Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essayed his perilous journey into the world of the dead. In time Nemi's Sacred Grove withered, ultimately to be immortalized in Sir James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators might particularly have admired was Rome's monstrous Emperor Caligula (A.D. 12-41), whose favorite order was: "Kill him so that he knows he dies." Caligula built two incredibly magnificent pleasure galleys, in which to float imperially...
...Hutton, $40,000,000 five-&-dime heiress, had a book on mother care thrown at her by ex-husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died...
...lost interest in the problems of more-or-less-normal living. In the center, "General" Jacob S. Coxey, leader of the famed Coxey's Army of 1894, addresses the national convention of Hoboes of America, Inc. Meeting over a Washington saloon, the hoboes solemnly discussed the decay of youthful morals, wanderlust, the curse of the Machine Age, non-interest-bearing bonds...
...civilization can no more be evaded by the United States than it could be by their prototype, the Roman republic. [The U.S. and Russia] are among the largest and strongest . . . civilized powers . . . and both are growing larger and stronger while the other powers of Christendom are falling into decay. Build (a) railway between them, and America-and Russia may join hands against the rest of the world on any issue...
Graves & Hodge believe that four main causes make for bad English writing: hurry (dictating bigwigs "use a ragged, conversational style that in the leisured '80s would have been attributed to drink, mental decay, or a vicious upbringing"), flurry (modern writers face many distractions), worry (about becoming definitely committed) and mild schizophrenia (people who must "write from a point of view . . . not their own . . . betray this by hedging, blustering...