Word: rottener
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...quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower of splintered glass panes. Next, Lettitia sent her husband crashing to his death from a rotten balcony. Before she herself died (of a migraine), Lettitia 1) dispatched a slave in a quicksand bog, and 2) ordered her personal maid's young daughter into the "stud cabin" in the plantation's slave quarters, where the child died of a brutal raping. Lettitia's penance...
Ever since the Cornell game he had felt rotten. This morning he finally climbed the three flights in the Hygiene Building. By noon, he lay quietly, shivering a bit, wondering what had brought him to a bad in Stillman...
...boys were the young flower of the nation, but what went on after lights-out left a trail of rotten petals from attic to parade ground...
...hairiest neighborhoods -all dressed up in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. "Hey!" said one little denizen of the neighborhood. "Lookit momma's dolling!" It was the work of a moment for the roughneck and his pal to redecorate the object of their interest with a barrage of rotten fruit. Then they opened their mouths to laugh, but no sound came. When last seen, the two boys were disappearing rapidly in the direction of the Erie Railroad tracks, followed hard by Little Lord Fauntleroy himself, who was spouting profanity in a highly experienced manner and carving the breeze with...
When De Sapio seized the leadership of Tammany Hall in 1949, he found himself in command of a rotten, rat-infested political hulk. From its days of corrupted power, Tammany stank. It exacted a heavy price in public money and civic decency for a service. To New York, as to many another U.S. city in the period 1820-1920, came immigrants by the thousands and by the tens and hundreds of thousands-Irish driven by famine, Italians by population pressures, Jews by persecutions. These were not all or mostly the brave or the gallant; many were the fearful, the rootless...