Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Warrender Mackenzie, ist Baron Amulree of Strathbraan. Last week prudent Lord Amulree had put the Atlantic between himself and Newfoundland when his Commission's report was published simultaneously in London and at St. John's. It declared 'that Newfoundland's chief industry-fisheries-is rotten to the core, that Newfoundland fishermen have become, under a "vicious credit system," practically the serfs of the merchants of St. John...
...soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than once had to drop his dignity and take to his heels. Of his anti-slavery poems Biographer Mordell says: "They . . . are too dangerous to be introduced into the schools. They still breathe that 'blasphemy' and 'sedition' of which vested interests...
Chicago, prime exemplar of rotten city finance, sent no important municipal official to attend. The polite guests did not refer to their host city's negligence. They called her not by name, but more than one of them took digs at the type of municipal financing Chicago has done, particularly ''borrowing" from schoolteachers and firemen by foisting on them payless pay days. Chief causes of city financial trouble as diagnosed by the conference...
...opening day four girls noticing the strange odor of melon went sniffing around Stoughton Hall until they traced the source to a half-empty bottle of Golden Wedding Rye. The four indignant maidens hastily disposed of the offending liquid. Either the whiskey was poor or lese there is something rotten in Pembroke, or perhaps Brown does not coach its women...
...world moves on sentiment and sensation. But before the writer pleads guilty of ignoring the "great underlying forces which have molded Harvard's glorious history" he would like to point out that, of Harvard, the Great Rebellion does not mean the War of Independence of 1775-1781, but the Rotten Cabbage...