Word: dirtier
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Hollis Pifer remembers his mother taking him to the railing, calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...
...women only gives you away completely. Do you think women fear male criticism whether they wear knickers or hoop-skirts to play golf ? Never believe it! No, but women are sick and tired of having to share golf clubs with rude men, men with fat stomachs and dirty cigars, dirtier language, boasting, conceit, overbearing attitude on the course when they drive right into women who are playing and treat us like lepers. They cannot hit decent shots or act decently. Half the time they are drunk while playing and debauch the little caddies with their stories and actions...
...liked him better; his drawings in the Yellow Book caused critical thunderstorms. Esthetes strove to imitate in prose and verse the Beardsley gift for wistful evilness. His friends denied that he was obscene; in that denial they took from him his character and his curse. There could be nothing dirtier than certain prints of his which had to be cut in half to be published, but even these truncated figures are perfumed with the touch of a sophisticated and poetic mind...
...thoughtful will answer: "Postmaster John Kiely [of New York City] is, like you, a friend of Judge. He well knows that there is no honest Rabelaisian lewdness in the pages of this flaccid journal; he must have been able to see that the editors were engaged in the far dirtier business of trying to make the clean appear foul. By barring the issue he has done the publisher a notable favor...
...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...