Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard men held the ear of the public with a series of exclamations of which 'Rotten, rotten!' and 'Oh. my!' were the most sane and most frequent. The audience looked aghast, the players stumbled through their speeches, but the University boys kept...
...were the women players spared. At times the students would pretend to weep in sheer mockery; occasionally the sounds of kissing would break in upon some tender situation and completely spoil its effect. And between successive flights of lemons came ever and anon the Harvard yells of 'Rotten...
...Hogan's Alley" eventually shakes off the rotten tomatoes and turns out to be a pretty self-respecting picture after all. Incidentally Patsy Ruth Miller has never been better. We realize that this statement may not create much of a sensation, but we wanted to put it in anyway. The truth of the matter is that Miss Miller bears a most striking resemblance to the first girl we ever fell for. And if that isn't just cause for liking her, what...
...found the crater of Vesuvius swarming with billions of ladybugs. . . . I was taken for a Frenchman in Damascus and bombarded with rotten fruit . . . . No wonder! Near there I saw 300 Senegalese soldiers riding along on camels and lashing at the faces of passing Syrians with long whips. A fine way to pacify them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira...
...have been trying to force medical men who are rotten writers to use typewriters. I guess you would come under that rule. It doesn't strike me as a fair deal to your patients that your writing should not be so legible that any chemist could read it. Suppose it were urgent and none but Blank could read the writing and Blank's store was closed. You would sign a death certificate just so. A nod is as good as a wink, and this note may lead to some intelligibility...