Word: fouler
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...amount to madness") of the great Polish soldier-statesman whom only Poles are temperamentally equipped to obey and understand. Marshal Josef Pilsudski. A dictator with a small "d," he refuses to be President, detests the Premiership, publicly calls the Polish Parliament a prostitute when he can think of no fouler epithet and rules Poland through a Cabinet clique called "the Pilsudski Colonels...
...that "it will leak out anyway." A few realized that the only medicine for a sick society is an overdose of the original poison. It remained to be seen if the Browning filth would give rise to an antibody in the public current of thought, or if a still fouler injection was inevitably in store...
...these rumors--whence are they?--foretelling an encroaching stranger to crowd back those comfortable neighbors, Grays and Matthews! Then fouler whisperings of downfall to old Boylston! Dear Boylston, old companion, whose gray and frowning brow exudes such sympathetic melancholy; staid neutralizer, in its sober thoughtfulness, against that youthful, grand, and awful Widner; that sprawling, showy presence whose mere thought has oft inspired a nightmare in the midst of daydreams. What perturbers of the sprit these winged devils are! More rumors still, though less distinct, of other changes to be wrought, more parvenu intruders in the moss-grown ranks. They come...
...novel exhibits all the earmarks of modern realistic school: the conversation is a compendium of all possible atrocities on the English language, the women are fouler-mouthed than the men, and of course there is not an attractive character from cover to cover The only note in the book is the monotone on the morhid, while as a substitute for rational analysis of the mind, Mr. Sergel, in typical post-impressionistic torpor, prefers the less exacting formula of adjectives . . . and . . . dots...