Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is something rotten in Denmark, but you are on the wrong track knocking Mr. Bingham. Why kill your own leaders...
...Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event in the history of the British Empire." Reason: it inaugurated Free Trade and the Empire's Golden Age. Groused the Duke of Wellington: "Rotten potatoes have done...
Eskimo life, the most difficult and the poorest on earth, is utterly concentrated upon getting enough food. Their food is seal, caribou, tea, above all, raw frozen fish. They like rotten food even better (it is spicier) but there are few limits to what they will swallow. They eat enormously-50 lb. of meat per day for a family and its dogs-and belch and hawk and cough and spit continuously when indoors...
...that we don't think you're sincere in advocating what you think is best for the country, but we think life would be rather rotten for a long, long time if this country got into...
Goya's Spain was as rotten and bankrupt a monarchy as Europe had ever seen. Leprous beggars and pockmarked peasants scratched their lice and wallowed in filth unmatched since the Middle Ages. Degraded courtiers wasted themselves lewdly in fashionable excesses copied from the French court of Louis XVI. The harlot Queen Maria Luisa, a green-complexioned, toothless masterpiece of stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong...