Word: rife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone in Washington with a memory for faces was startled. Whisperings were started. Other memories, joggled, also led to recognition. Soon the Capital was rife with rumors that Harry Ford Sinclair, convict in the District of Columbia Jail, was riding through the streets in a motor car. The jail officials were questioned. They admitted that for two months Convict Sinclair, prison pharmacist, had been detailed to accompany the jail physicians to the city wharfs to attend prisoners working there...
...German espionage was rife in the French Army. To obtain a scapegoat and to cater to anti-Semitic factions, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, able Jew, was accused by the high command, tried, convicted, sent to Devil's Island. The question shook Europe. After five years the Dreyfusards won. Capt. Dreyfus was retried, found guilty "with extenuating circumstances," pardoned by the President. In 1906 he was formally declared innocent. He fought for France in the War, gained the rank of colonel, still lives in Paris...
...open season at the Court of St. James once more fills the columns of the society page as the flower of democracy runs the gauntlet of diplomacy, privilege and connection to reach the end in view. Journalists "view with alarm" the costly pilgrimmage and tales run rife of the "inside path" to the Mecca of upper crust...
Male Freeborough of Banstead said: "Women manage boys by a system of bribery and corruption. Out of the six leading nations in the world, the nation in which bribery and corruption are most rife is the nation which has the most women teachers. America is loaded with bribery in its very vitals, its Parliamentary [Congressional], its municipal, its commercial and financial life. It is more than a coincidence that in that country teaching is feminine...
...work of art this issue deserves first rank in Lampoon annals. In it the grumbled protests, the soured ambitions, and the hushed scandals that have been rife in dormitory "bull sessions" for the past decade find classic expression. Adopting the style of communistic propaganda, typified by "The New Masses", the Lampoon has done bitter battle with every abuse, real or imagined, of Harvard life...