Word: dirting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eye?Atlee Pomerene of Ohio by being oil scandals lawyer (see p. 12); Elihu Root by continuing as a patriarch of the bar; Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks, goes yachting. John Sharp Williams prunes the gardenias and oversees the cotton planting at his old Mississippi home...
Puzzling servant girls; patient schoolboys, chinless sodawater clerks; burly salespersons all want that $1,000. Dirt cheap publications which they read offer them riches. Scarlet billboards proffer fortunes. Solve a puzzle. Win a trip to Europe, or an automobile, or a set of dishes or that...
...They DO huh? Look. Nathan F. Leopold Senior. Why do they put the Senior in? That's the tipoff. Everybody knows now who he is. Why tell everybody, tease 'em; and supress the dirt...
...Public trust? Public trust? Is there any greater public trust for the newspapers than to keep the public dizzy with dirt. The public wants it; the public has come to need it. The newspapers have created a habit. It must be satisfied...
...tiny agents of decay had suddenly centred on the dusty pit he was making for a dead man. As big as chisels, as little as rusty pins, the hungry red worms swarmed into the grave. At last, terrified, the gravedigger leaped out of the grave, pitched shovelfuls of dirt to bury the worms, then fled, screeching...