Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company a gentleman should be "Grave, Settled and attentive," should refrain from swatting "Fleas, lice, ticks &c in the Sight of Others." A gentleman should not run, dawdle, or walk with his mouth open, shaking his arms and kicking his feet "in a Dancing fashion." Clothes should not be "foul, unript [torn] or Dusty," hands should not be put "to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered...
...refusing to permit Senate discussion of the much-publicized Pepper-Geyer anti-poll tax bill, the filibusterers do more than slight the democratic processes they were elected to direct. The foul blow they strike at Senate prestige joins that body's earlier self-inflicted black eyes to push it into the very depths of public esteem. More important, vital war measures must bow before their legislative sabotage; and now when every minute counts this sabotage is scheduled to last a month...
Behind all the issues of this war lies a deeper question, now posed to the world. Which do you choose-the free spirit of man and the moral idealism that has shaped the values and ideas of our civilization, or this horrid substitute, this foul obsession now resuscitated from the underworld of the past...
Germany's chief Foreign Office spokesman, fat, foul-tempered Dr. Paul Schmidt, hates all neutral reporters, especially the uncowed Swiss. Last week, at a press conference, he snarled at them again. The Swiss press, began Dr. Schmidt in his heavy voice, had a "negative attitude" toward the New Order...
...first minute of play, the Plympton Street All Stars coasted on their laurels and an empty keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon the rest of the way. The first score, chalked up 30 seconds before the opening whistle, came about after a pass, a punt, a prayer, and a foul ball into the left field stands. Refusing to use his anti-tank division until the opening of a second front, Hesdman Rocknelberry Fenn used three full teams and an umpire in subaning the hapless Hanoverians...