Word: dirtiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn...
...when, grown senile at 80, he was asked by his colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court. Refusing, he was reminded that he had once served on a committee to secure the resignation of another doddering Justice, Robert Cooper Grier. "Yes," blazed the stubborn oldster, "and it was the dirtiest deed of my whole life...
...brokers from charging any rate of interest they please." Big fiction feature of The Pawnbrokers' Journal was "A Fair Exchange" by Harry Irving Shumway. This story opens with Pawnbroker Moe Epstein appraising a diamond for his friend Marcus. Says Moe: "A full quarter of a carat but the dirtiest diamond I ever see. Nine dollars is the very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray of fountain pens, then balks because the pens appear to be ''too yellow." Moe says, "So are canary birds, but who's afraid of canary birds? Well...
...Britain and the U. S. to discover that the cliff-sided, lattice-sailed junks of China could outride a typhoon that would dismast a frigate. A Chinese junk, for all its uncouth lines, is one of the most seaworthy ships ever built. Most of them are also among the dirtiest ships ever sailed. That fact, however, need not worry Subscribing Shipmates. The plans that reached Shanghai last week were for a junk outwardly orthodox in every detail from the staring eyes on its squat prow to the curling dragons on its 30-foot poop, from the lacquered weathervanes...
...Opponents," he gravely warned, "will make this the bitterest and certainly the dirtiest political struggle that any of us here can remember. The assault will be financed with the largest slush fund on record, contributed for the most part by those who have neither public conscience nor private scruple, who are only interested in getting back inordinate privileges." Chairman Farley braced himself for Republican "perversion of the facts," "outright lies." "foul whisperings." "We must work." continued Boss Farley, "for a victory so overwhelming as to make it plain forever that democracy is the faith of our people and that loyalty...