Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foul murders pointing to a young etcher set benevolent Detective Bourke on the trail of an international forger of banknotes...
...rumor (more or less verified here) is that the interests behind Smith stand ready to spend $100,000,000 to elect him by foul means or fair, but it is not believed that that amount of money can buy the self respect and conscience of America. It's a dirty business they're engaged in and I regret to see a magazine I once admired collaborating with men determined to buy the Presidency of my country...
...through at every step, and actually closes behind the explorer within 48 hours, so that if he would retrace his steps he must again chop. Ooze. Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze. Lions, tigers and all cleanly cats eschew the foul place, but snakes, lizards and-in the oozy lakes-crocodiles are noxiously at home. Branded upon memory may remain a fight between two mammoth crocodiles, each some 20 feet long-savage devils, mercilessly tearing, raking, lunging, thrashing the ooze with loud slaps of mighty tails. The eyes seem to glare...
...handshake between King Alfonso and President Doumergue symbolized the completely altered relations between France and Spain, historic enemies. Connoisseurs of handshaking were not, however, much impressed. They recalled that King Alfonso once shook the hand of a leper, a foul rotting carcass of a man, who had knelt to His Majesty in the street, superstitiously believing that he could be cured by the "Royal Touch...
...Michigan Kid. Foul play on the part of the villain leaves the hero (Conrad Nagel) trapped in a forest fire. A woman's intuition on the part of the leading woman (Renée Adoree) saves the hero. It is just another one of those things...