Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...
After Business Hours. It is hard to stand the strain of a weak heroine stumbling through reels of irrational rot, and seemingly, the actors find...
...Downing Street, official home of Britain's Prime Ministers for nearly 200 years, is falling down. In fact, the discovery was recently made and last week advertised that the house and No. 11, official home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was crumbling from dry rot. The Office of Public Works stated that one of the walls had subsided, that there was no imminent danger of collapse. Crowds flocked to see the historic building. It was mooted that it would have to be rebuilt...
...tactics," referred to "the recent but harmless tremor of the earth," arraigned the News for flaunting on its front page a picture of what might have happened ito this city in a serious earthquake," prophesied that such tactics "mean ruin in the end for a paper belching forth such rot," stated of the News that "no educational thoughts are offered in its pages ; it is just a plain money-making scheme...
...rot in jail forever before I will give the key of my design to that committee...