Word: perverter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misstating the facts of the history of the Party and giving an untrue version of events ... to pervert Bolshevist ideals, deluding the Party, the Communist Internationale and the whole country regarding the real relations of Lenin to the Party during the period of the Revolution...
...Having perused well the chronicle of the week," and having fortified himself with a dose from Webster, the Instructor in Journalism "views with alarm" the accession of his favorite weekly to the conspiracy to pervert the small adjective "due" to the rank of a conjunction (TIME, p. 10, col. 3, Nov. 24, 1924). How can he keep his students from this barbarous usage when his best ally deserts...
...tragic phenomenon in this vale of tears than the deliberate perversion of an idea or a philosophy out of its original meaning in order to serve the base purposes of its enemies. Does a Christ preach a creed of peace on earth, good will to men, some Kaiser will pervert his words into " Gott mit Uns." Does a Nietzsche drive himself into madness transvaluing all the moral values, some nimbled-witted George Creel will reduce his works to a cheap credo for footpads. Does a serious-minded Bernard Shaw spend fifty years writing serious plays for the cultured leisure classes...