Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans RFC advisory committee which loaned $4,000,000 to the Union Indemnity group of insurance companies not long before they crashed early in 1933. That stirred New York's hulking Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr. to one of his typically brash outbursts, this time on Banker Hecht and a "rotten mess." Suspicious of any & all banks at the time, depositors outside New Orleans began to withdraw deposits. Banker Hecht soon had a first-class run on his hands, which was not stopped until he called in Huey Pierce Long...
...frontier town of Redfield, Mass. (now Deerfield), was in poor shape for defense against the French and their Indian allies. Its palisade was old and rotten and a heavy snowfall had made it even less of a protection. There were only 150 men in the town. The cold and sleepy sentries did not suspect the attack until it was too late. But the Indian warriors, under the nominal command of French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey to Canada, to hold them...
...Exhibition hung an Annunciation by one Evan Walters. In blue pajamas and halo the Virgin sits on a box. A Gabriel in bright yellow aviation suit points to the ceiling. Through the open door of the small shack may be seen Gabriel's airplane. Cried outraged clergymen: "Rotten! Ridiculous! Bad taste!" Director Fred Haines said that artists have often painted the Virgin in contemporary clothes, denied the picture would be removed...
...stomach into his intestines. This stricture caused food to remain unduly long in the stomach. The food fermented and formed, along with non-inflammable carbon dioxide, highly inflammable methane (which miners know as fire damp and farmers as marsh gas) and inflammable hydrogen disulfide, the gas which makes rotten eggs smell as they...
...protesters. When the Catholic league condemns a picture such as Little Man, What Now? because the heroine unhappily conceives her child before she is fully ready for marriage, although the picture is a splendid symbol of faith: and condemns Manhattan Melodrama because a criminal is not pictured as being rotten all the way to the core, then it has become more than censorship. It is stupidity...