Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, it might be objected, is a pessimistic view of the matter; we can hardly be expected, however, to rejoice, Pollyanna-wise, that Curley did not win by a larger majority. We might as well admit that there is something rotten in a state nearer than Denmark...
...Charlotte loses her fight and is forced to make a rotten compromise with life. Her love, an ill-fated affair, is uninvolved in the crash, however, and in a final burst of righteousness she sends her man away and decides that "life is not love, life...
...author that "the heart of the colleges is round;" that when we are told, for example, that Radcliffe representatives at an intercollegiate debate supported the affirmative in the question: "Resolved: that the recognition of labor unions by employers is essential to successful collective bargaining", all may not be rotten at the core. For, after all, somebody had to support the affirmative, and perhaps, as often happens in these contests there was a negative team at Radcliffe that looked at the question differently...
...remarkable fact today is that the public has suddenly become curious. Unfortunately its curiosity has progressed no farther than the police systems, which in some cases have been so rotten as to prove subjects of absorbing interest. Yet it must be remembered that, among other world's records, America holds that for arrests. Our policy are active; but they are not active enough, and never will be, at the present rate of crime. The public curiosity should lead farther; where do all these criminals come from, and why would it not be possible to stop the course, as far more...
...returning to Cambridge for the opening of another year were accorded a strange greeting Sunday night, when an Irish priest, fresh from confinement in an English jail, and speaking from a platform hallowed by the footsteps of James Otis and Samuel Adams, hurled anathemas upon all Harvard as "stinking rotten with British propaganda." If reliance may be placed upon the reports c. Three reputable morning papers, there is little in the way of vituperation approaching blasphemy, that this Australian visitor did not head upon such newspapers, schools, churches and citizens of the United States, as have refrained from supporting with...