Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tallulah Bankhead heard that among the 20-odd reporters gathered in honor of her role in Lifeboat (see p. 94) was a young woman from New York City's crusading newspaper PM, "My God, if I'd known," seethed Tallulah. "Of all the filthy, rotten, Communist rags . . . that is the most vicious ['clenched fists up to ear level,' dutifully noted the PM reporter], dangerous . . . hating paper . . . cruel . . . unfair ... I loathe it ... Darling, I hope I haven't hurt you." To PM's editor, a few days later, Tallulah wrote a note: ". . . Convey my thanks...
...speaking-trumpet," of "reproducing the suspicious cries of the reactionary groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense," Pravda discovered "a rotten smell of familiar anti-Soviet slanders designed to cause mistrust toward the Soviet Union...
...carried for sale-a total investment of $13,000-were almost worth their weight in gold. A speculator offered M. Giovanni almost half a million dollars for the cargo. He held out for more, could not get it unloaded. He finally had to take $2,500 for his half-rotten produce. The Giovannis were ruined. So they opened a furniture store with Mme. Giovanni's belongings. As it was beginning to prosper, an Irishman and friend appeared, wanted to see Mme. Giovanni, and laughed loudly when Giovanni told them that the lady was his wife. "Behold the rascal," they...
Stanford, 7 June, 1902 "So there is no maw gaw to shed in the Baw Waw. The paw praw-Baws will feel saw ! The praw-Baws are an awful baw! They gained no eclaw by taking the flaw! I set no staw by them. They are rotten at the caw. So no maw from...
...when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew in songs through their mouths." When Confucius became Chief Minister to Duke Ting of Lu, his theory of government was applied on a large scale-perhaps to discredit it, for "Rotten wood cannot be carved." The young Duke was led away from Confucian precepts by the insidious gift of 80 dancing girls from a neighboring ruler jealous of the prosperity and the magical reformation in manners that came with Confucius' government...