Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buzzing noisily in another circle: the fiercely nationalistic circle of the Russian Five. In their letters, they viciously attacked the prevailing Germanism of the Imperial Russian Music Society, which Musorgsky called "the musical slum." Wrote Musorgsky: "Force a Russian peasant to love any of the Volkslieder of the rotten Germans -he will not love them!" Almost as fast as he poured in vodka, he poured out characteristically Russian songs which caught the inflections and rhythms of Russian speech...
Alluring Strangeness. Nicolson admits that all great writers have been the least bit peculiar, at that. Germany's Schiller whetted his inspiration by keeping rotten apples in his writing table drawer. Charlotte Brontë often mooned about the house for months without being able to put pen to paper. Milton could write only between October and March; Balzac, Byron, Dostoevsky and Conrad, only at night...
Wrote Southern Editor Haskett: "The whole transaction was rotten . . . ungentlemanly, unsportsmanlike . . . worthy of no praise. . . ." Last week, thanks to his editorial, the U.S. press went to town on the case of Harvey Jones. Josephus Daniels' Raleigh News & Observer picked up the story first and its 85-year-old publisher sternly told Ahoskie off. United Press (14 hours ahead of the napping A.P.) took the story from there. Manhattan's underdog-loving PM launched a "Cadillac for Jones" fund. Kiwanis' national president, a North Carolinian himself, told the Ahoskie club to give Harvey a Cadillac. It wasn...
Bawdiest city: Butte ("with the possible exception of Amarillo, Texas"). "Whole neighborhoods [in Butte] are moldy, whole streets are rotten and decaying. The bars are preposterous and prodigious. I saw grandmothers teaching six-year-old kids to play slot machines...
...Luck Rat, Rotten Eye Creek: Charlie will see the doctor today and I think he will be going back with me tonight. (Signed) John Vetnelsi...