Word: noxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, at a mass meeting, last week, in dauntless fighting terms did President Matheus of I falz Province summon sturdy topers to rescue the winelands of the Rhine and Moselle from "the incipient necessity of their being planted with noxious tomatoes and cabbage plants...
...means. . . . If by 'Liberty' be meant the right to spit upon the symbols of Religion and of our Native Land and of the State, very well; I as Head of the Fascisti declare that this 'Liberty' shall never come into existence. . . . Fascism throws the noxious theories of so-called Liberalism upon the rubbish heap. . . . The truth, manifest henceforth to all whose eyes are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps tired of liberty. They have had an orgy of it. Liberty today is no longer the chaste and severe virgin for whom fought and died the generations...
...proposed educational department, hailed by Dr. Otis as another step in bureaucratic dictatorship, is scarcely harmful. One can not imagine its engaging in activities more noxious than the cultivated equivalent of free seed distribution. The legislative branch of the government which several times has made abortive attempts to weaken the Supreme court is not likely to confer unseemly authority on a newly created department. With only the powers granted by a jealous Congress, the bureau could have little autocratic influence on the schools of the nation...
Defendant Lourdin explained: "When migrating birds passed over the Abbé, at Bombon, flying in the direction of Bordeaux, he filled them with diseases by sorcery. . . . When the birds passed over our homes at Bordeaux (500 miles away) they caused to grow poisonous mushrooms of lascivious shape and noxious odor, which gave us shameful diseases in various forms." The Abbé des Noyers boomed: "That is a frightful lie!" The other male defendant, one Henri Froger, was called: "The Abbé afflicted me likewise with shameful diseases. . . . We did not mean to kill him but only to defend our Sainted...
What is so noxious as a Trust? When the late Theodore Roosevelt was shaking his Big Stick at the meat trusts, the steel trusts, the oil trusts, every newspaper in the land published a picture of a Trust so that people would know one when they saw it. A Trust, cartoonists made clear, was a bloated figure with a pork barrel body, huge watchchain (labeled "Profits"), smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last...