Word: rotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dreyfus case?made him a hero. As editor of L'Aurore he wrote the famed caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around to sign M. Clemenceau's visitors book, just before...
...great officers of the realm was the Banco Bombelli a few days ago. Its chairman, bland, steady-eyed, imposing Commendatore Jorio, inspired Cardinals with confidence, competitors with fear. He was rumored to sit spider-high in the Fascist web of Star Chamber courts which sentence men to exile and rot on 77 Duce's penal islands. Last week the Banco Bombelli, small but among the oldest and most select in Rome, failed...
...rot," snorted Mr. Kellogg in St. Paul...
Fourth: Dr. Wylie and Dr. Bowlby did rot call, the following day, to see the President, but went to the White House to see the President's Secretary, Mr. Akerson, to thank him for having arranged the meeting with the President...
...flight which President John K. Montgomery of American International Airways made down the west coast last week was a gesture of defiance, a threat against the Pan-American half of the combination. He does rot like the Pan-American "crowd." A onetime U. S. Navy and Army flying officer, he once was a member of Pan-American. Came disagreements, disputes, arguments, fights...