Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope no more of those rotten headings are permitted by FORTUNE in any future advertisements...
...shame on you and all your rotten works...
Conant. Frankfurter, and the whole rotten bunch should go back to Moscow where they belong. Yours in absolute disgust, R. H. Goodell...
...shrewd Revolutionist Quinn this was just the beginning. Two months ago he demanded a constitutional convention to remove, once & for all, the "rotten borough" system. On the day the bill came up for vote, two Republicans were sick abed, three Democrats opposed it. Not to be caught napping a second time, Republicans dragged 69-year-old Senator Frank E. Payne from bed, stuck him on a couch in the Senate lounge, had a nurse prime his weak heart so that he could vote. Before Republicans or Democrats could charge each other with the old man's "murder," anxious relatives...
...suggested that I get in their bus I gladly accepted their invitation. I told them I was on my way to a night club, the Trocadero, and thought they were going to take me there but somehow they missed directions and wound up at the police station. Very rotten taste, you know, mistaking a police station for the Trocadero." Apologizing in New York for the short comings of his sonnet on the death of King George V,* England's sad, frail Poet Laureate John Masefield explained that it was written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled...