Word: rotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creditors were her stoutest champions and Marthe had a new paper, Forces. Last week she stood up before another magistrate to be sentenced for having received stolen documents, published in Forces. Spoke up indomitable Marthe: "I would be ashamed to make my living the way you do. Justice is rotten and when I am in the presence of its representatives it gives me the greatest pleasure to tell them so.'' The court slapped on a contempt of court charge and sentenced Marthe to three months in jail...
...Daniell of Stock Exchange-stink bomb fame. At Peoples Junior College in Los Angeles a song sheet appeared on which were printed the college song, the Star Spangled Banner and a purple swastika. Both at Johns Hopkins and Amherst, where there were strikes, R.O.T.C. men threw firecrackers and rotten vegetables into the ranks of the demonstrators. At the former university, the R.O.T.C. turned the water hose on speakers, faculty as well as student...
...purpose of this letter is not to defend the particular sex questionnaire, with which I have no connection. I have no idea how much scientific validity and value such an investigation may have. But I do wish to call attention to the rotten attitude of Harvard officialdom toward sex. Why do they blush the minute sex is brought out into the open? Why do they insist on pushing it underground where it becomes filth? Why is the most important of human instincts never mentioned more than superficially in any Harvard courses except abnormal psychology and others similar...
WIDENER JUNGLE: Hard to get in and harder to go out. Not a night club by any means. Closes at tea-time. Rather bookish crowd. Rotten service, you usually wait an hour for what there is. No music, no rough-house. Drinking is frowned on, despite precious collection of 16th Century wine-cards. Ask to see the labyrinthine maze which lies behind the famous Grand Staircase...
...pioneer mother warns her son that money only leads to ruin, not happiness, but he goes on with his cattle business, in which he rises to be the big Chicago packer. He lived to see his wealth make his wife hate him and go mad, turn his sons into rotten social parasites, who uniformly come to a bad end and produce more children who are well on their way to an equally bad end. This same doleful tale was told in "He Loved a Woman," which was at the University a few weeks ago. It was a fused picture...