Word: foule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most notorious of the old-time dives were the Billy Goat, named for its foul smell; the Bull Run, where the pretty waiter girls entertained privately for 25? to $1 ; the Opera Comique where French and Spanish women performed; the Morgue, where the proprietor maintained a standing offer of five free drinks to any man who could find undergarments on one of his pretty waiter girls. Besides the dancehalls and saloons, Pacific Street and vicinity had its cheap "cow-yards" which were squalid honeycombs of harlots' cubicles and more expensive parlor houses. Pitiful, and far more shameful, were...
...have been vainly looking, longing, searching for the merest glimpse of those Eire eyes, those laughing lips, those daring dimples--all portrayed so accurately by the Boston Sunday Advertiser. Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose; the Harvard youths should wear that winter face! May the Foul Fiend fly away with that nasty photographer who has so carefully hidden his baggage under...
This brindle-haired, gruff-voiced man with a plainsman's capacity for a broad grin and an equal capacity for downright anger at what he considers foul play, managed Coolidge's Minnesota campaign in 1924. He was the sort of honest man Coolidge appreciated and five years later, in the early days of booming 1929, that President named him to the Federal Trade Commission. Although a Republican he was elected chairman last January in time to execute Democrat Roosevelt's attack on bad security selling. He helped write the Securities Act, and today stands eager to enforce...
Nearly three hundred years ago Harvard College was founded by men who wished "to advance Learning, and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." Beautiful as this expression may be, it is foul with the church-ridden egocentricity of church-ridden men. For Harvard College, and for American education, there has grown a larger purpose, consonant with the modern concepts of life, perhaps more cynical than that of the Puritans, but one which has already proved more fruitful of human happiness. It is the greater...
...assistant director. After the War, which kept him from going to college, he got a job with the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, went to the Aquarium in 1921. Three years ago he began to investigate the reason why unchanged water in balanced aquaria$#134; sometimes does not become foul. He discovered an active bacteriophage both in old aquarium water and in the intestinal contents of fish (in this case, small-mouthed black bass...