Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What do we see in China today? Nothing but maladministration, treachery, bribery, and wars. China is suffering more than anything else from too many rotten generals. They are everywhere, fighting and marching, backward and forward-not for China, but for their own personal gain...
Scowling Marshal. Not without boldness did Henry P'u-Yi speak of China's "rotten generals," at Tientsin last week for even as he spoke two of these generals were entering into an alliance, preparing to march upon Tientsin and Peking with...
...Fosdick had said: "There is plenty that is rotten and hypocritical in the old codes concerning love and the relationship of the sexes. Surely they can be changed and the simple standard can be substituted. Whatever debases personality is wrong and ugly; whatever elevates personality is right and beautiful...
...doors of Kansas saloons* smash windows, mirrors, bottles, glasses; upbraid bartenders and patrons. In a Wichita saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult to his mother. As the town marshal escorted her to the station, many a rotten egg was flung at the Hatchet-Swinger. She was jailed three times in Topeka. In Kiowa, when the mayor demanded that she pay damages to a battered saloon, she threatened him with fire and brimstone, then, as he allowed her to leave, turned, delivered a benediction: "Peace on earth-good...
...vanished and set up a Temporary Governing Committee which two days later became the Cabinet of Prince Lvov in which M. Kerensky was Minister of Justice. Next day representatives of the Duma obtained the abdication of the Tsar. Russians were all but stupefied that the Tsarist regime was so rotten at the core as to topple after four days of disorder in Petrograd. Troops ordered to shoot down the mobs flung away their guns and embraced the rioters. Never was a revolution less bloody...