Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leske, retaliation by the enemy is a personal affront, an outrage and probably illegal. A journalist told him that the Dutch had fired on descending Nazi parachutists: "It's a rotten, beastly business, shooting at defenseless parachutists. Typically Dutch. I think it isn't according to international law, anyway." Later, when the Nazi fliers again find "roads that are lousy with people"-"So they are civilians?" writes Leske, "Well, either...
...failed to tell us anything about his authority for the quotation. Crabbed, although highly interesting, John Randolph of Roanoke shot it at Henry ("Mill-boy of the Slashes") Clay. His exact language seems to be in dispute. Bartlett puts it: "So brilliant, yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." Personally one better likes the version employed in the life of Randolph, in The American Statesmen series of biographies: "Like a mackerel in the moonlight, he shined and stank...
...Egypt, George of Greece and Peter of Yugoslavia. He had a talk with General Sir Archibald Wavell. Then he gave out his personal observation on the Iraq situation: though the Iraqis seemed to outnumber the British five-to-one, and though the Germans were leading them they were still rotten fighters, and the British would be able to handle them. But as to British chances against the Germans in that sphere. Jimmy...
...that arrive from Spain-by way of Nova Scotia-are usually rotten...
...Stewart, and the product is not gold but unpalatable musical hash. Stewart remains the easy-going, honest boy from the sticks who migrates to the big city. The heavy is his grump uncle who wants Irish Mary Gordon's property. Although he has to plaster his uncle with a rotten tomato and give away a thousand dollars over the radio to do it, Stewart finally effects the obvious Anschluss. Ma gets the house and Jimmy gets Paulette...