Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hanging three deep on the sides of streetcars, celebrators sang "Pum pum pum" and the motorman punctuated the "meow" with a clang of his bell. Meanwhile, "There's a cat in the tuba" had become a solid part of Brazilian slang-a rough equivalent of "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...
...Facts are facts - we cannot deny that. But the fact that there is one rotten apple in the barrel should not be sufficient cause to condemn all. W. M. KRIEGER Managing Director National Selected Morticians Chicago...
...down on paper now, anyway, Vag sighed. When the people outside know the rotten pulp, the idolatry, the waste--that's worse, he thought, the awful waste, when they know what I have seen, they'll. . . . what? Say something constructive, Vag. Talk is cheap. Remember the Maine. Faith over...
...Paris (where he imitated the impressionists but made no contact with young moderns like Picasso). For a long time Hopper's road was a rocky one. He sold only two paintings in 23 years, supported himself by doing commercial illustrations, which he hated. Says Hopper: "I was a rotten illustrator-or mediocre, anyway...
...been promised a return bout with Champion Williams, but last week Bob Montgomery thought better of it. At 28 he hung up his boxing gloves-for good, he said. He added, with candor and wisdom: "There's been too many rotten fights the past few months and I've never been connected with any stink in the boxing game. My timing's off, my punches go wild too often and it's time I quit...