Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ultra-Truculents. Exile to rot in Siberia was the sentence enforced, last week, upon the little known, ultra-truculent, blindly conservative group, formerly led in the Communist party by Comrade Sapronov. This stubborn band of heroes or madmen have braved threats of exile for years, and were the "opposition" when Trotsky was still "regular...
...awaken an interest in other people's grooves. In the mad rush for marks, details, for true-false examinations, authoritative quotations and the like, no one seems to lift his eyes above the Library spire. College should be sipped and enjoyed as a liqueur and not gulped down as rot-gut gin for pure animal excitation...
...stand pat for a stratified society topped by an aristocracy either of money or brains. They find the present form if not the present condition of government in the U. S. satisfactory on the whole. They think little of radical reformers. For various reasons, all would call Socialism "rot." Besides Banker Morgan, Blues include such assorted types as Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Chairman William Morgan Butler of the G. O. P., William Wrigley Jr., William Randolph Hearst, James J. Tunney, Will Durant, Henry Louis Mencken, Walter P. Chrysler, Charles Albert Levine...
...Social disturbance and murder until then rife at Barcelona, Valencia and Zaragoza have been absolutely quelled, peace and prosperity restored to those towns and in every part of the Peninsula where the rot was spreading...
...worst of it was that the whole state of Indiana was populous with onetime friends who were leaving him to rot forgotten. Jobholders whose jobs he had secured for them, officials whose offices had come from his bounty-they ignored him now. Back in the fall of 1926 he had threatened to expose some of the less lovely incidents of Indiana statesmanship, had received word that if he kept quiet until after the election he would be "taken care of." He had kept quiet, but his reticence had not been rewarded. In June he had protested against the treatment...