Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this boy, poor but honest, or just pretty poor. If so, how poor...
Admiral Magruder: "There is a rotten condition and I have exposed it. The Navy is spending $300,000,000 and getting $200,000, worth of Navy...
...effect that guerillas at Telpaneca are "not to be confused with gorillas, huge apes" is just another insult to intelligent readers which so disgusts a very great number and makes them regret that TIME, which might be so very, very good, is so very, very amateurish and rotten. VERY SORRY SUBSCRIBER Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich...
...times are ripe, and rotten ripe, for a change," he trumpeted. "Let us rally our forces to the flag of the Constitution . . . inalienable rights of the citizen ... to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience . . . free speech, free press and peaceable assemblage ... the right of each citizen to regulate his own personal conduct...
...There is a rotten condition, and I have exposed it. The Navy is spending $300,000,000 and getting $200,000,000 worth of Navy...