Word: dirtier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under RELIGION in TIME, Sept. 7, comes John Roach Straton, with a tirade against the dance. Question: Are Preacher Straton's thoughts fit for print? Question: Why should a professed follower of Christ, cleanest thinker and liver, hunt for "dirt, present it, exaggerated and made dirtier, obviously by his own interpretation, to a Christian congregation? . . .to whom, by his own admission, such an interpretation had never occurred...
...fights without any scruples to hamper him. He will say anything and do anything to win. There are no rules of the game for Mr. Hearst. There is no code of honor. Truth is of no importance to him. The only reason he did not make the campaign even dirtier than it was is that he did not dare face the reprisal which Senator Walker could have inflicted. Not fairness, not courtesy, not truth, restrained him, but the fear of what Smith and Walker could have done if they too had gone the limit...
...teacher asked so simple a question that almost everyone knew the answer. But the woman, as she gazed down the row of small, lifted hands, forgot what she had asked, for she had caught sight of one small fist whose aspect caused her, inexplicably, to shudder. It was not dirtier than the others; it was not mis-hapen, and it was unmarked except for a few minutes bulging sores. Yet if gave her an indefinable and malign impression of deformity, of horror. She sent the boy attached to the hand-one Frank George, 11-to Dr. E. D. Newman, skin...
Lady Doyle: " I told reporters that the streets of Mayor Hylan's city are dirtier than any I ever saw, except at Constantinople...
...tickets read only to Cologne, and we changed trains here and arranged for a sleeper from Dusseldorf. The station was dirtier than in pre-war times, and the train was late enough to make us feel at home. Service was good, and an English-speaking porter who helped us to start our three trunks of paper samples through in bond, tried to return half the well earned tip that we gave him. The first-class car that we entered here was clean, and newly and attractively upholstered, both seat-coverings and curtains being of paper fabric, as in nearly...