Word: rotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's event in Rhode Island was an aftermath of last January's legislative coup d'etat. By a rotten borough system Republicans had always held control of the State Senate, and by an ingenious law, the Senate, if it did not wish to confirm the Governor's appointees, could name other officers in their stead. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor might be Democrats, the General Assembly might be controlled by a Democratic majority, but Republicans still ran Rhode Island. Such was the situation in 1933 and 1934. One afternoon last January, when Governor Theodore...
...have witnessed a few very good pictures, a great many mediocre pictures, and thousands of rotten ones. Conservative estimates would allott at least two thousand hours of my time to learning from Clark Gables and Anne Hardings how to spend my free time. I have brought sincerity, humor, and writing talent to my work and reach a circle of 3500 interested subscribers...
When Pearl, the eldest girl, was nine, Hugh was knocked down by an automobile, while he was jacking up a rail to replace a rotten cross-tie, and run over and killed. The company sent his body home that evening, when the rest of the workers got off at five o'clock, and Cora did not know what to do. After she had put the children' to bed, she went out and walked down the street until she met a policeman. She told him what had happened to Hugh, and he said he would have the body taken away early...
Representative Maury Maverick of Texas was incensed at these facts from Mr. Cassidy's summary of the McCarl report. Demanding that Mr. Cassidy be thrown out of the Committee room, he yelled: "An immense crooked lobby is trying to defeat TVA. It is rotten and disgraceful!" He charged that the summary was false: "If I weren't in Congress and it would not be undignified to say so, I would say it's lousy." David E. Lilienthal, TVA director, was called to the stand and declared the Cassidy summary "misleading." Comptroller McCarl, also called, said the summary...
Unfortunately, Dr. Means gives rotten performances. If any of his patients feel ill, he stops to make a personal examination and even prescribes a remedy. Thus he inevitably loses to Dr. Hathaway, who can interpret symptoms by intuition as his legs strain for the tape. The latter also knows that the best way to answer difficult questions is to disappear immediately into the main building where he can have his rubdown, free from inquisitive measle victims. It really is a tragedy that he is ineligible for Eddie Farrell's team...