Word: rotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wall, n-a-ow, Cal's a candidate sure enough-he's fixing up his fences," jested the village quipster as frantic cameramen from behind the deadline laid by secret service men watched the shirt-sleeved President uprooting rotten posts, nailing industriously. Later Head Secret Serviceman Dick Jervis was sent to market for victuals. As he was getting into his car Mrs. Coolidge called "Oh, Mr. Jervis, don't forget to get two pounds of string beans...
Next day, Senator Reed, (Dem.) of Missouri, stood up again: "The attempt to pass such a bill as this makes me sick all over-I hope to God that the Dawes' plan which he worked out for Europe is not so rotten economically as this...
...Significance. Here, exhibited with simple declarative irony much like that with which Author T. F. Powys has exposed the rotten boroughs of England, but without that writer's bookmanship, are the hill and village folk that made possible in this land and century the preposterous "monkey trial" at Dayton, Tenn. Following no plot, pointing no moral, it is simply a contemporary pageant of ignorance masquerading as "smartness," bigotry as uprightness, mob violence as morality, pleasure as the unpardonable sin, among isolated people whose surroundings seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their...
...insinuate that liberty of the press does not exist in Italy, that the people are not freely represented in parliament (witness your sneering reference to the "docile senators"), and that the Fascist government is not representative and interferes with personal freedom. All this in face of the perfectly rotten political, social and racial situation prevailing in the U. S. where an arbitrary sumptuary law has been foisted upon the nation, with which it is not in sympathy; where a single race, the Jews, has attained a degree of political control making possible a practically complete domination of the press...
...lunch room and gulping down two, four, half a dozen, a dozen, two dozen, three dozen, three dozen and one, and five, and ten-four dozen soft-boiled (2½ min.) hen's eggs, in 45 minutes. At the 37th egg he choked, gasped out, "That egg was rotten." As the 48th mingled with its predecessors, he unfolded himself, arose, collected a bet ($10) and the price of his orgy, paid the pop-eyed waitress, stalked through the crowd and made for his rooms...