Word: putridity
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...standards of a large portion of the metropolitan press utterly fails to jibe with the taste of America's upper middle class, criticism and correction has been directed at journalism with a good deal more vehemence than effect. There have been many picturesque epithets applied to the newspapers. "The putrid press," "the pornographs," "the yellow dogs" are exemplary examples. For remedies, suppression and censoring have been the least acceptable although the most tangible and the most often called for. Plans for reform from within have emanated from educated and conservative quarters but have been lacking in provision for specific relief...
...your city between John F. Hylan, clean and honest servant of your interest and yours alone, whose record of deeds contains no blemish, and "Little Jimmie Walker, slick and pliant politician, Broadway butterfly; advocate in public of mothers' pensions and paid in private for easing the sale of putrid and dis- eased meat to those mothers...
...over the municipal radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession time and again rotten hog livers and pigs' heads, frozen spotted eggs, putrid spareribs and beef brains, and pork snouts in an advanced stage of putrefaction...
Leprosy (the grey death), according to certain medieval conjecturers, issued in the form of a woman's body with a rat's head from the grave of the stillborn Antichrist; scientists have lately suggested that it is bred from putrid fish. Rising out of the East, it has crept down the centuries, a slow, fatal smoke, eating in secret. When Godfrey de Bouillon rode against the Paladin in the 11th Century, it withered the flesh of his captains under their painted armor, followed their retreating banners into Europe. Contagious, it is never hereditary...
...such an extent has grown the evil of demagoguery among politicians that the real facts and the economic principles involved in questions of national policy are continually obscured by a dense and putrid fog of demagogic argument designed simply to forward selfish personal, political and group interests...