Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy to slip, a mercury-coated cent into the fare-box,--I spent one afternoon in the Physics laboratory preparing in this way some pennies I had found by tapping a slot machine,--and once past the guard the whole rotten metropolitan life of Boston is only eight minutes away...
...Dismissal (of Bismarck), an historical antimonarchist play by Emil Ludwig, was produced for the first time at Berlin and has caused a good deal of comment in the press; although the people, surprisingly enough, refrained from any outward manifestation of their contempt or approval. The absence of rotten eggs and other uncomplimentary gifts is considered by the antiroyalist press as nothing short of a 1923 miracle; even the monarchist journals are not too enthusiastic for Wilhelm. Herewith some comments...
...tariff on sugar (a Republican measure) gave Chairman Cordell Hull of the Democratic National Committee a chance to abuse the Republicans for passing it and thus making sugar speculation behind the tariff wall both tempting and safe. President Harding, alert and cautious fearing that there might perhaps be something rotten in the state of Fordney-McCumberism, promptly ordered an investigation of the situation by the Federal Tariff Commission (which had already started one of its own) to see if he would be authorized to reduce the sugar duty as provided by the law. As the investigation will occupy from...
...very comforting, in an age of yellow journalism, to know that at least one paper in Boston is still able to see the truth and to speak it. The Boston Evening Telegram, in its leading editorial on Saturday, revealed in graphic terms the rotten depths to which Harvard humorists have descended. With the Lampoon's "Town and Country Number" as their text, the editors have exposed once and for all the foulness that has been masquerading in these innocent-appearing pages. It is almost inconceivable that respectable college men should be willing to debase themselves, in the words...
...been born in Jugo-Slavia, and so of that nationality. His mother and father had lived in this country throughout the war, and had sent for their son at the first opportunity. But the Jugo-Slav quota was full, and the boy was shipped back, homeless and penniless. "A rotten deal" was what the official in charge of the case termed it; but he was helpless. Two young Roumanian girls were deported although their father, in this country, offered a thirty-thousand dollar bond for their release...