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Word: rotten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cities need attention. They are the rotten spots in the body politic. Under our present system, revolution, not evolution, as the only remedy. We need to develop two ideas; first, that the city officers are not political officers, and second, that as the city is a business institution, there should be a board of control made up of citizens. This board should be above the aldermen and without its consent no franchises should be granted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. WHITE'S LECTURE. | 3/6/1897 | See Source »

...tendency was to make life synchronus. Humanity is the same all down the ages, and it is a gracious and likeable humanity, which he presents to us. His sympathies are always with the subjects. In Titus Andronicus alone, are we introduced to a state which is rotten, and, be it remarked, there is great doubt concerning the authorship of that play. Shakespeare is much more moral than his contemporaries, and always, there is a tendency towards something better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Black's Lecture. | 3/24/1892 | See Source »

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